
ORATION 



POEM, AND SPEECHES, 




DEL1VK K K 1) A T THE 



THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 



ASSOCIATED ALUMNI 



PACIFIC COAST, 




At Oakland, California, Jane 6th, 1866. 



PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. 



SAN FRANCISCO : 
A. ROMAN AND' COMPANY 
1866. 




ORATION 



POEM, AND SPEECHES 



DELIVERED AT THE 



THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



ASSOCIATED ALUMNI 



PACIFIC COAST, 



HELD 



At Oakland, California, June 6th, 1866, 



PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. 



SAN FRANCISCO : 
A. ROMAN AND COMPANY 
1866. 



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PEEFACE 



The business meeting of the Association, whose proceed- 
ings are here given, was held on June 6th, 1866. The names 
of the officers chosen for the ensuing year, are given below. 

Thanks were voted to the Orator and the Poet, with a re- 
quest for copies of the Oration and the Poem for publication. 

The list of graduates is still incomplete. Corrections and 
additions are solicited. 



OFFICERS. 



President. 

Hon. OSCAR L. SHAFTER. 

Secretary and Treasurer* 

Prof. MARTIN KELLOGG. 

Executive Committee* 

Hon. 0. L. SHAFTER, Hon. SHERMAN DAY, 

EDWARD TOMPKINS, Esq., Rev. S. H. WILLEY, 
Prof. M. KELLOGG. 



CONSTITUTION 



P THE 



ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST, 



ARTICLE I. 
The name of this organization shall be, " The Associated Alumni op the 
Pacific Coast." 

ARTICLE II. 
Its members shall be — 

1st. Graduates of Colleges, Universities, and Institutions of Collegiate 
rank ; of Law, Medical, and Theological Schools ; and of the 
United States Military and Naval Schools. 
2d. Honorary Members, who, after election, shall be entitled to the full 
privileges of membership. 
All members must enroll their names. 

ARTICLE HI. 
The officers of this Association shall be — 
1st. A President. 

2d. A Secretary, who shall also be Treasurer. 

3d. An Executive Committee, consisting of the President, the Secretary, 
and three others. 
These officers shall be elected annually. 

ARTICLE IV. 
There shall be annual meetings of the Association — 
1st. The place — with the College of California. 
2d. The time — Commencement Week. 

ARTICLE V. 
At each annual meeting there shall be — 
1st. An Oration and a Poem. 

2d. A Supper, and such other exercises as the Executive Committee 
direct. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Each member shall, on enrolling his name, pay an initiation fee of three 
dollars, and afterwards an annual tax of one dollar. 

ARTICLE VII. 

This Constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, by a vote of 
two-thirds of the members present. 



ALUMNI EXERCISES. 



I. ORATION AND POEM. 



The afternoon exercises were held in the new College 
School Hall, which Prof. Brayton kindly placed at the service 
of the Association. The spacious room was well filled by a 
most attentive audience. 

John W. Dwinelle, Esq., presided. Prayer was offered 
by Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., of San Francisco. 

The Oration and Poem were then delivered, as follows : 



ADJDRESS, 

BY HON. 0. L. SH AFTER 



IN EIGHT METHOD. 



•>The present age is often spoken of as an age of inquiry ; 
but it is not that exactly which distinguishes it. The human 
mind is ever active. Torpor was not the trouble with it in 
the middle ages. There were as many questions asked and 
answered then as now. Curiosity was never more eager, nor 
the din of controversy louder, nor were conclusions ever 
more multiplied. Though relatively dark, those ages were 
not dead. Let the questions which then engaged the atten- 
tion not only of the leaders of opinion, but of the masses, be 
formally stated, and the number of accredited solutions also, 



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and it will appear by count, that in the matter of knockings 
and apparent openings thereunto, the present age is beaten 
at its own game. There were geologists before Werner, 
astronomers before Galileo or Copernicus, geographers be- 
fore Cellarius, theologians before Martin Luther, writers 
upon the great problems of society and government before 
Grotius and Puffendorf, mental philosophers before Locke, 
and dogmatists upon the subject of investigation before 
Bacon determined its laws. Instructed or uninstructed, in 
the darkness as in the light, the human mind has ever assert- 
ed its divinity through the great office of thought. 

Though inquiry is no more active now than it was in the 
middle ages, still the objects to which it now addresses itself 
are widely different, and the methods of investigation are 
diverse altogether. The new direction given to inquiry may 
be regarded as the objective point of the change, but its 
cause is to be found mainly in the method by which investi- 
gation has in modern times been conducted, and in the recog- 
nition of a new tribunal clothed with the power, and affected 
with all the responsibilities of judgment in the last resort. 

The medieval method was the dogmatic. It was short and 
to the purpose. The facts of consciousness, the testimony of 
the senses, the voices of the affections, reason, experiment, 
observation, experience, general principles the truth of which 
had been established by normal methods in earlier times, all 
went for naught. If known as sources from which informa- 
tion could be derived, they were never consulted. They 
were all alike under ban. The accredited dogmas were re- 
garded as axioms, the truth of which no one was permitted 
to dispute under pains temporal and eternal. Though there 
was controversy, as has been remarked already, it was con- 
fined to the true meaning of the dogmatic statements. When 
a new point arose which no existing statement exactly fitted, 
a new one was deduced from doctrine previously settled. 
And so the process went on — one assumption breeding an- 
other to infinity. 

This method of getting at truth was not confined to any 
one department of inquiry, but was extended over the whole 
field of thought and investigation. The result, as might 



ADDRESS. 9 

have been foreseen, was a series of false judgments, followed 
by fatalities proportioned to the magnitude of the questions 
which the false judgments involved. There was no science, 
no philosophy — moral, intellectual, natural or social — none 
but the art of endless wrangling, according to Aristotle. The 
idea of law or established order in the procession of events, 
was unknown or ruled down. Everything was treated as 
exceptional, nothing as universal, save theology — and the 
vicegerency through which it aimed at the dominion of the 
world. 

And how did this estate use the power which it had ac- 
quired on no better authority than that of dogmatic inter- 
pretation ? Having driven the reason from its appointed 
watch, it peopled the universe with chimeras. It secured 
for ages the degradation of labor by holding that it was a 
curse from the beginning, and not a merciful judgment in 
disguise. By mistaken interpretation it set the form and 
structure and history of the earth awry, and disordered out- 
right the mechanism of the heavens. 

But these conclusions were connected with others different 
in character, and of larger range. Prom a dogmatized exege- 
sis of the witch of Endor, came sorcery. Though an entire 
illusion, it was attended with all, and perhaps with more than 
all, the consequences that would have followed it had it been 
a reality. The result of false method in the first instance, 
the false judgment was defended and kept on foot by like 
method, for more than a thousand years of human history — 
filling it with every form and degree of crime, misery and 
shame. The lawgiver walked in its shadow, and judgment 
wallowed in its mire, and domestic and social life withered 
in its spell. The ghastly delusion survived the reformation. 
For more than two centuries thereafter the history of Pro- 
testant Europe was but a continuation of the medieval chap- 
ter. The delusion crossed the Atlantic in the Mayflower — not 
as freight in the hold, but as a passenger in the cabin, and 
found a delusion like itself, and of like dogmatic mould, dwel- 
ing in the wigwam of the savage. For the better part of a 
century thereafter, colonial life, in one of its aspects, pro- 
ceeded on the barbaric level. 



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But there was another dogmatized delusion which prevail- 
ed in the middle ages, of like character with that just men- 
tioned, though of larger proportions. I allude to satanic 
agency. It was one of the leading misjudgments of the 
times, and of all, the most controlling and disastrous. It was 
the most comprehensive. It cast the largest shadow. Prac- 
tically there was nothing back of it that could become the 
subject of thought or speculation — nothing but vacuity. The 
misjudgment was so generic that in a purely syllogistic age 
all manner of deductions were sure to be drawn from it, 
whether for ends avowedly religious or humane, or for the 
lust of gain, or power, or for the gratification of malignity in 
pursuit of a single victim or a hecatomb. 

This delusion related to no less a question than the present 
acting sovereignty of the universe. By a decree as full as 
precise, and as inflexible as any ever entered in a court of 
record, that sovereignty was more than divided. There was 
no appeal. Nor was there any disposition to appeal. The 
decree accorded with the intellectual condition of the times. 
The dogma was received, not speculatively, but as a real pre- 
sence, and the heads and hearts and^hands of men were at 
once set to work to find out and to give to it the uttermost 
farthing of its argumentative dues. The harvest of conse- 
quences soon began to be gathered, and the field ever stirred 
by dogmatic culture, continued to yield more and yet more 
bountiful returns for forty generations. 

To the agency in question was assigned the current admin- 
istration of the physical and moral universe. Eruptions, 
earthquakes, adverse winds, storms, plagues, pestilence, fam- 
ine, disease at large, times and seasons — 'everything, in short, 
that was considered abnormal, was attributed to it. Insanity 
was by diabolical possession. Every distemper of the passions 
was by present diabolical incitement ; and so was private 
judgment, and the individual conscience its fast ally, when- 
ever they rose in revolt, or sought to test their common 
chain by going behind the dogmatic heats in which it was 
welded. 

Over against this hostile jurisdiction, however, and consti- 
tuting its counterpoise, was set another — the vicegerency. 



ADDRESS. 1 1 

The first was strpernatirral, in presence and malignity, and 

for all present purposes was considered as moving and reign- 
ing in its own right. The vicegerency was filled Avith beings 
of mortal mould, but they were endowed with supernatural 
wisdom and power by a dogmatized commission, and repre- 
sented the Deity in all the interests of the world which he 
had created. Both the poise and the counterpoise came ot 
the same method of determining what is and what is not, 
and they were alike necessary to each other. The wrath of 
man has been directed in the main at the vicegerency. and 
there the rule has been to lay on and spare not. But the 
ineradicable instinct of our nature after balance is such, that 
human scorn might as well have been directed against the 
assumption which made that vicegerency a necessity, in order 
that the world might be saved from present anarchy, or from 
destruction, rather, before anarchy could begin. 

From the two installations named, came, first and last, 
everything by which medieval history is most distinguished. 
The story may be made to fill a volume, or it may be told in 
a word. The human understanding and conscience were laid 
aside. The silver cords that connect the human and the 
divine were loosed ; the golden bowls were broken ; and the 
wheels at the cistern stood still. During the night which 
followed there was no industrial progress, for the harvests 
were put on a false issue. There was neither discovery nor 
invention — the spirit of both died out in the face of the hold- 
ing that both came of intercourse with the fiend. The lever 
of Archimedes was broken, and the golden fleece of Jason 
forgotten. Had the geometrician or the ancient mariner 
been within reach, the one would have been burned with his 
lever — certainly, if compound — and the other, wrapped in 
his commercial spoil. As for the Argo, she might have been 
sequestered to " pious uses.' 7 The great lines of philosophic 
thought started by the old immortals broke down, for they 
were of the pit to which they led. Literature was in its 
grave. Law awaited its resurrection in the charnel of Am- 
alfi. The new commandment given by the Redeemer unto 
men was wound about with patristic glosses, and buried alive 
with an ecclesiastical canon for its headstone. All concep- 



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tion of the beautiful as distinguished from the sublime and 
terrible, was lost. Dante, of the thirteenth century, was the 
first poet of our era whose name has deservedly become his- 
torical j and his great genius could find expression only in 
the wailings of the Inferno. In music there was no mean 
between the exultations of the Laudamus and the despair of 
the Miserere. Architecture was patterned after the groves 
of the Druidical worship, and painting drew its inspiration 
from the catacombs. No human authority was recognized 
save the divine right of kings, no supremacy but the Hier- 
archy. The physician was a poisoner if the patient died, a 
necromancer if he lived — and the plague walked in darkness 
and wasted at noonday. Cities and whole provinces were 
periodically depopulated. The prescribed cure by means of 
relics, pilgrimages to holy wells and shrines, though always 
used, always failed. The only recognized remedy for insan- 
ity was exorcism, the only one found was death. The religi- 
ous ideal was asceticism — with its wonderful self-sacrifice, 
and its long-breathed, pardlike malignity ; its sense of sin, 
which no penance could allay, strangely coupled with an in- 
sensibility to right and wrong which no appeal could arouse ; 
and to this may be added its infatuation in saving men by a 
method which crushed and destroyed them. Temporal jus- 
tice was by ordeal, spiritual justice by interdict, auto da fe, 
assassination as in the case of Henry of Navarre, or massacre 
like that of St. Bartholomew. The gospel was propagated 
abroad, and lost ground was recovered at home, by crusade — 
the retreats of the Albigenses, and the holiest of the holy 
mountains, were both carried by assault. Though the Hier- 
archy succeeded, to some extent, in restraining the lawless- 
ness of the times by dint of its dogmatic ascendancy, still, 
every victory gained by it over the passions of others, seem- 
ed but to intensify those peculiarly its own. 

But time moved apace. Fortunately there was no vice- 
gerency in fact ; nor was there, in fact, any such thing as 
satanic agency in the sense in which that phrase was used. 
There was God on the one hand, and man on the other, and 
between them unchangeable law — connecting them as with 
golden wires. The winds were in the hollow of His hand, 



ADDRESS. 13 

and the waves obeyed Him alone. Seed time and harvest 
were His. The pestilence came of a violation of what He 
had appointed. Labor was not a degradation, but a condition 
on which the waste place was to be made smooth, and the 
wilderness to bloom and blossom like the rose. A condition, 
also, of all intellectual and moral excellence, including in its 
highest range that striving even by which alone the strait 
gate can be entered. Neither invention nor discovery were 
what they were taken to be. They were divine gifts, and 
not preternatural crimes. Nor was private judgment, or its 
synonym, the human reason, what it had the credit of being. 
Nor was the human conscience. Their respective jurisdic- 
tions were misapprehended. Their relations to each other, 
and the normal methods of each were mistaken— and so as to 
their tenacity of life and their undying self-assertion. It was 
assumed that the human head was made only to nod assents 
and shake negatives — guiding the conscience correctly when 
the dictated conclusion happened to be right, and as surely 
misguiding it when it happened to be wrong. 

The great trouble was, that the reason^ the conscience, the 
appetites, the passions, the aesthetic nature of man and the sen- 
timents were all cast in dogmatic jumble — and from out it came 
the vicegerency and the fiend — -twin Pythons from the mud. 
The classic dragon fell by the arrow of Apollo, the day after the 
god was born, and if modern civilization had finished its ex- 
orcism of the others earlier in its own great day, it would by 
so much the more have been a blessing and a glory to man- 
kind. But it was not so to be. The fiend with whom St. 
Anthony struggled in the desert was the false presence with 
which the Scotch covenanter fought the fight of a yielding 
faith in the Highland cavern, after dealing the blow of grace 
at the Archbishop of St. Andrews ; and the one whose 
tempting whispers, to use the language of another, " haunted 
the life of the puritan, when away from the council-board, or 
off the field of battle.' 7 

But the middle ages, bad as they were, were not altogether 
waste. The reason, shut off on all the great lines of investi- 
gation, busied itself on shorter ones which authority failed 
to cover. Fatal security ! As though the short ones did not 



14 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

all lead into the long ones ! On the lower levels of thought, 
however, the understanding was left to go in and out accord- 
ing to its own laws. From like narrow pastures the con- 
science was not altogether excluded, and thus to a limited 
extent, it was enabled to keep its true relations to the reason 
and the life. Nor did the soul of man fail entirely of its 
appointed inspiration. It held on to its ideals and brooded 
over them, though in abnormal mood. The sentiments re- 
mained ; the pity whose fate it is to bleed, the charity which 
cannot weary, the human sympathy that cannot die, and the 
aspirations which at once link and direct man to the Creator. 
The sermon on the mount was not forgotten, though by dog- 
matic adjustments it became greatly cramped and perverted. 
Nor did the spirit of him by whom that sermon was preached 
and lived, die out entirely. The age, in short, had in it many 
of the antepasts of the present, as the present has of the 
higher good that is yet to come. 

Happy it is for the world that it is so difficult to destroy 
it ! However hard it may be to elevate man, it is harder still 
to degrade him. Take him at the middle distance — the half- 
way house between the extremes of the lowest heathenism 
and the highest christian civilization, or halfway or anywhere 
near halfway between the unquestioning slave and the in- 
structed and balanced freeman, and the smallest fraction of 
the power necessary to return him to the earth, would raise 
him to the skies. In the one case the attempt would set the 
universe ajar, while in the other it would run with all the 
harmonies of God. 

But passing from medieval times to our own. They are 
out of joint. Be it so. Still there never have been times so 
sound in the bone, or whose articulations were so perfect as 
ours. We are conscious of movement, and from the results 
which have thus far been reached, we have come not only to 
believe, but to know that the movement is a forward one. 

I do not propose to speak at length concerning the charac- 
ter of this movement. Its results have engaged the atten- 
tion of economists, moralists, statesmen, and philosophers ; 
and they have been studied and pored over by all, not as de- 
tached or disconnected events, but as a series, with a view to 



ADDRESS. 1 5 

determine their causes and law. The movement has already 
made large contributions to general history, and the end is 
not yet. The last of its volumes has neither been written 
nor acted. Differing to a degree from the ancient civiliza- 
tions, and from the medieval, men have thought it worth 
their while, and have even found it necessary to distinguish it 
by a name. 

The movement is vast in its proportions. There is no hu- 
man interest which it does not affect, and none of which it is 
not slowly but surely taking control. Its tendencies, so far 
as they have been developed, give assurance not merely of 
that nearer future which, when it shall have transpired, will 
-have only doubled the distance back to Eden, but of that fu- 
ture at the end of whose unmeasured reach lies all of earthly 
weal that man was created to enjoy. 

This movement has so far been followed by every form of 
material good. Human life has been multiplied and pro- 
longed by unwonted bread. The standard of physical com- 
fort was never so high, nor was its enjoyment so widely dif- 
fused as now. The vine and the fig-tree of hoariest tradi- 
tion are growing to fulfilment. 

On the field of the ideas the assumptions of the middle 
ages have been unsparingly overhauled, and most of them 
have either been exploded outright, or greatly modified ; 
and other conclusions, the peculiar product of modern 
thought, have been established in their stead. Throughout 
the physical universe, the demonstrations of science have 
supplanted the vagaries of men. Moreover, scientific con- 
clusions have widened largely into moral ones, and moral 
ones, on all the lines of divergence, into those that are divine. 
As matters now stand, we have scripture penetrating and 
irradiating nature, and nature penetrating and irradiating 
scripture. Revelation appealing to consciousness, and both 
sense and consciousness unitedly soliciting revelation. Testi- 
mony seeking alliance with testimony, text and context strik- 
ing hands, light everywhere uniting and blending with light. 
Facts broadening into great political, moral and religious 
conclusions ; party broadening into country, and country into 
mankind. These, and other like conceptions, leading on to 



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another, broader and higher than they — not chance, nor fate, 
nor decree, nor the fitfulness and inconstancy of human will, 
but to the sublime conception of universal law, with nothing 
beyond but the supreme intelligence that created it, and 
through which it rules and reigns. 

Nor have these great conclusions of modern times been 
unattended with practical consequences. Everything that 
distinguishes modern civilization in the overt from the medie- 
val in the overt, comes of them. The great industries of the 
age come of them. A great nation has built upon them, and, 
by the illustrations of its wonderful history, it is at once 
mastering the fears and the reluctance of mankind. Other 
nations are gradually shifting from off their traditional bases 
on to them. Nor has the conception of a universal intelli- 
gence among the people, one of the grandest of the generali- 
zations referred to, been allowed to rest in idea. Vast edu- 
cational systems have been established, and are kept running 
by social power to meet the ends of social necessity ; and 
the intelligence so secured has stood, with us, to all the con- 
clusions of peace and war. The doctrine of human brother- 
hood, no more clearly borne out by revelation than by all the 
evidence bearing upon the question, more than begins to 
receive its dues. Of all the forms in which evil has organiz- 
ed itself, there is but one which has afflicted our history — 
and that will afflict us no more. Slavery having lived the 
life of the Saurian, has died the death of the Saurian at last, 
and now lies buried in the formation to which it belongs. 
Hereafter the war of evil upon social interests must, with us, 
be predatory and guerilla. Evil thrown upon its own re- 
sources is one thing ; intrenched in Constitution and laws it 
is quite another. In the one case it is as Cain without his 
protecting mark, in the other it is Titan armed. 

We all see and acknowledge the historic change upon 
which I have been remarking, and it is but natural that we 
should desire to find out not merely its antecedents, but its 
cause. What is it then that really bridges the chasm be- 
tween the present and the medieval ? My own views upon 
the subject have probably been sufficiently indicated already, 
but I will venture to proceed with the question, nevertheless. 



ADDRESS. 17 

The point is essentially an historical one, and it is in that 
bearing only that I propose to discuss it. 

The cause is not to be found primarily in the sentiments, 
nor in any part of the emotional nature of man. It was from 
the unregulated or badly regulated sentient nature that most 
of the evils with Avhich the middle ages were afflicted, pro- 
ceeded. Going no farther back than the age of the puritans: 
there was never a style of men more conscientious than they. 
Historians, neither descended from them, nor in sympathy 
with them, are agreed that they were conscientious and God- 
fearing. Nor were they unlearned. Few were the fields of 
thought which they had not visited, and from which they 
had not returned bearing sheaves. Their granaries were 
full. Nor did they lack dialectic skill. They knew the ar- 
row of the Parthian warfare, and could fire it from the saddle. 
The sling they knew, and all the cunning that lies in fence. 
But these were more for holiday use. For serious work, the 
weapons most familiar to their handling were the axe, the 
spear, and the mace, heavily loaded and knotted. Yes ! they 
understood the use of weapons well enough. The best of mod- 
ern knights errant who, living in their day, had challenged any 
of their men of mould to a trial of conclusions, expecting to 
win by dint of superior skill, would have found out, most 
likely, before he got through, that he had mistaken his man. 

The earlier reformers were conscientious men. They stood 
apart. They were not distracted like the clergy of to-day 
with many things. Childhood did not then go to sabbath- 
school, nor did it worry with picnics. Nor did charity make 
them the almoners of its bounty, nor did education make 
them the drudges of its systems. Samaritanism had not half 
secularized them. Nor in seasons of national peril did they 
go to the front with the first levies — nor with the three hun- 
dred thousand more, and, forgetful of the proprieties of sacer- 
dotal service, stand between the living and the dead in the 
hell of battle. Much less were they moved to put their 
names in advance on the roll of the Landstrum, and patiently 
await the hour when national despair should summon its age, 
and all that should be left of its youth and manhood, for a last 
struggle. Their wills were rarely nuncupative. Their lives, 



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indeed, were distinguished and select. They were troubled, 
but it was mostly with controversy. They breathed the 
pure, thin atmosphere of polemical distinctions, and their 
consciences became both tender and tough by patient wait- 
ing upon the conclusions of sound doctrine. According to 
an accredited biography of one of the most distinguished of 
them, "his disinterestedness was rare. He had no other 
wish than to establish the opinions which he believed to be 
correct." He was a persecutor, however, to the death, and 
relentlessly inflicted the martyrdom he was always prepared 
to suffer. What was the deep-seated trouble with him ? It 
was not the "wish" spoken of by his biographer, for, like 
the kindred wish of St. Dominic and Torquemada, it was 
entertained in the interests of mercy and love. The wish 
was, of course, antedated by the opinions to which it related. 
The formation of his opinions was, or ought to have been, 
a purely intellectual process. When that process was com- 
pleted, the reason certified the conclusion over to the con- 
science, which up to that time had lain couchant, and the 
conscience gave its answering assurance that it would be 
morally wrong if he failed to stand by it and propagate it. 
Before the fires could be kindled, however, there was another 
judgment to be matured in the mind of the thinker. It re- 
lated to a question of power. How far can I go in making 
my opinions the opinions of others ? Must I confine myself 
to teaching and argument, or failing that, may I bring the 
thing to the conclusion of violence ? The problem was for 
the brain, and it solved it. The solution was erroneous, but 
the error was not of the heart, but of the head, acting in false 
method — or on wrong conditions of judgment, which comes 
to the same thing. 

The change in question has been referred to the reforma- 
tion, but that is not ultimate. It has been ascribed in part 
to the printing press and the invention of gunpowder ; but 
copy comes before types, and gunpowder cannot be exploded 
before it has been made. Again, the cause of this change 
has been found in the revival of learning. But occasion 
must not be taken for cause. What induced the revival of 
learning, and, when revived, saved it from hierarchal and 



ADDRESS. 1 9 

dynastic direction, and made it subservient to mankind ? 
Why did this revival become the herald of a new day, rather 
than another voice added to the night ? 

Nor can the change be ascribed to the passions. That 
theory is the ultramontane one. But the passions had little 
to do in determining the character of the middle ages, except 
as their benighted leader called out to them from the front, 
they sending back their answering bay from the rear. They 
were the dogs of the war, but they did not lead it. The 
leader and the led made wild work between them, but the 
responsibility was not altogether, nor chiefly, with the hounds ; 
and who that considers that history is made, primarily, by 
ideas, will doubt it ? 

The process by which the great revolution was affected 
was an intellectual one — sanctioned and aided by the senti- 
ments. 

There is an apprehension that makes man like a god. It 
comes of the reason. Though fallible, there is nothing below 
omniscience less so than itself. The office of the reason is to 
distinguish between truth and falsehood ; and in the light of 
evidence which it can appreciate, to determine what is. The 
scio remains to it alone. Everything that relates to source, 
process, weight, result, belongs to it by appointment. It 
stands in the great office of judgment. Its absence is idiocy, 
its dethronement, insanity. Humanity in the beastliness of 
appetite in the one case, in the other humanity walking and 
raving in illusion. The natural enemies of the reason are 
the appetites and passions ; but they are so only when in 
excess. It is the office of the reason to restrain them, and 
to oppose its conclusions to their clamors when raised in the 
councils of the will. To that service it is impelled by its 
own instincts, the monitions of the conscience, the aspirations, 
and to some extent, by the very passions between which and 
itself the issue is joined. 

All things are of God ; but under him the credit of the 
great revolution is due primarily to the reason. It turned 
its attention in the first place to the question of its own 
rights and lawful jurisdiction ; and going back of the holding 
that it had neither the one nor the other, it reversed the 



20 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

dogma, and established the right of private judgment in its 
stead. This result was reached by a process that had no 
trace of dogmatism about it, and therein lies the only assur- 
ance that it will never be reversed. It was based .upon the 
consciousness, upon inductions drawn from individual and 
general experience, and upon scripture, the authenticity of 
which was wrought out by means of evidence that commend- 
ed itself to the understanding. The reason having thus 
broken its own chain, acting, as at first, on its own instincts, 
and under the incitement of the sentiments, proceeded to 
settle accounts with its oppressors. It attacked the vice- 
gerency in its intrenchments, and badly breached, if it failed 
to carry and destroy them. Ever strengthened by scientific 
discovery, it attacked the doctrine of satanic agency, and 
sorcery, its offshoot, and in the ripeness of its own councils 
it adjudged them to be mummeries, and there that matter 
ended. But I do not propose to go over the roll of the deci- 
sive battles won by the reason in its prolonged struggle for 
recognition, as the leading, crowning faculty of the soul. It 
is enough to say, that as all things peculiar to the middle ages 
came of wrong judgments, resulting mainly from false method, 
so all things that distinguish modern times, come of their 
reversal by the reason, and of right judgments reached by it 
through right methods, and entered up by it for the uses of 
mankind. It is, however, sufficiently exact, and would, per- 
haps, on the whole, be quite as just, to say that modern civili- 
zation comes, under God, of the soul in the free council of all 
its powers, the reason presiding. It would be but a change 
rung upon the idea, to say that it came of the human mind 
in balance — or of manhood, not fully restored, to be sure, but 
still in the process of being restored to its centre. Or of the 
whole man — whole in thinking and in feeling — thinking and 
feeling in right order, and so reaching the result of right 
action in matters relating to policy, to morals, to religion and 
to mankind. God is no more in the present than he was in 
the middle ages. He knows no change. Christianity encoun- 
ters no rival religious system now, and it was impeded by 
none then. The only new force in the field, is the human 
reason acting in intelligent alliance with the system by which 
it was once discredited and disowned. 



ADDRESS. 21 

The view that has been presented as to the primordial 
cause of the differences between the present age and the 
medieval is not new — if it had been, it probably would not 
have engaged attention on this occasion. Though within the 
last few years, the argument; in favor of the exposition has 
been better marshalled and mOre fully illustrated than it ever 
had been before, yet it was long since accepted as the true 
solution of the greatest of historical problems. In this coun- 
try the theory, if it has not won universal credence, has re- 
ceived the assent, at least, of the general judgment. The 
evidence of this is multiform, but there is one fact which is 
in itself decisive. With us, all organized procedures, whether 
governmental or voluntary, looking to individual or social 
advancement, are based upon it. The scio is everywhere 
brought to the front ; not for one purpose, but for all pur- 
poses ; not in one connection alone, but in all connections. 
The relations of the intellect — enlightened and trained to the 
exercise of its powers in right method— to the heart and to 
the life of man, and to the growth and development of na- 
tions, have come to be understood and acknowledged. Dog- 
matisms have very generally gone to the rear, and, to some 
extent, have even become confused with the baggage — and 
it must be confessed that the baggage has not always been 
very vigilantly guarded. No one now admits that he pro- 
poses or wishes to excite a zeal not according to knowledge. 
It will be understood that the term knowledge is used here in 
no narrow sense, but as comprehending everything that is, 
and as excluding nothing except that which is not ; and it is 
entirely manifest that in this nation, taking it as a whole, an 
unproved dogma, no matter what may be the subject to 
which it relates, is not counted upon as being any part of its 
working or available knowledge. Now and then, to be sure, 
an individual dulls the edge of his own husbandry by a short 
dogmatic run. The mere politician, indeed, takes a longer 
run than there is any apology for. Standing on the last plat- 
form of his party, he proclaims continually, " There is nothing 
like plank." He does not seem to reflect that there may be 
timber in the civil Lebanon, uncut as yet — cedars, wherewith 
the future shall build platforms broader than any which 



22 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

party has ever stood on as yet, or can ever be made to stand 
on. 

Lawyers continue to dogmatize without sensible abate- 
ment. But then they have the apology of position. With 
them what is writ is writ. But they show, after all, that they 
are in sympathy with their times, by persistent stragglings 
at the barriers. When off duty, they have been known to 
seek the springs that bubble, and the pastures spread among 
the hills. 

Physicians rarely dogmatize in council — oftener with their 
patients, perhaps, but rarely with them. On the whole, they 
may be regarded as unassuming. Their drift is to inquiry, 
and the habit is found to bear perceptibly on the bills of mor- 
tality. Sangrado is undoubtedly dead. 

Divines dogmatize now very little, comparatively. Since 
the time of Paley, the clergy, both at home and abroad, have 
shown an ever-growing disposition to deal with evidence, 
and, like Paul at Athens, to reason with men of righteousness 
and judgment to come. Yery many of our colleges are under 
their superintendence, but in their professorial chairs they 
do not teach by dogma. There are a few mathematical and 
philosophic truths which they assume as axiomatic, but it is 
because they are self-evident, or ultimate atoms, and there- 
fore incapable of resolution ; but should they attempt to add 
to their number, they would be rebuked by their own boys ; 
and should they persist, it is but giving utterance to the 
simple fact to say that their establishments would be speedily 
emptied. Still, what vast ranges do they traverse with the 
rising hope of a nation behind them ! But there is no dan- 
ger. Let all fear be quieted. The methods of investigation 
and judgment which they adopt, do not lead to unbelief in 
the bad sense, but to belief in the best. There was never an 
age like this, in the number and magnitude of its intelligent 
convictions. Infidelity of the malignant type is at an end. 
The last atheist died not long after the last magician. They 
kept each other in countenance while they lived, and the 
blow that finished them came from the same quarter, and was 
dealt by the same hand. The disposition to believe every- 
thing, and the disposition to believe nothing, though arising 



ADDRESS. 23 

from different causes, are both amenable to the same cure. 

There is a sin neither to be forgiven nor forgotten. What 
it is ma) T be regarded as an open question. But if that form 
of evil which has worked the greatest calamity to mankind is 
entitled to the distinction, it lies at the door of that system of 
procedure by which the poises of our nature are deranged 
and destroyed. 

As for the American Statesman, he was never much of a 
dogmatizer, and now he has ceased to be one almost alto- 
gether. He seems to have concluded from the first that 
Government should be based upon generic resemblances, and 
not upon accidental or forced differences. In view of the 
lessons of the last few years, added to the lessons of univer- 
sal history, there is not only a disposition manifested to give 
full swing to that idea, but, to a great extent, the thing has 
been already accomplished. The great question of whether 
one man is as good as another to the intent of right and 
obligation — to which truth all the great decisive battles of 
the world, from Marathon to Gettysburg, stand in relation — 
has been settled at last. But how ? Though under God — 
yet let it be remembered that 

No earthquake reeled, no thunderer stormed, 
No fetterless dead o'er the bright sky swarmed ; 
No voices in heaven were heard. 

Though under God, acting in the fixed methods of his pro- 
vidence, still, humanly speaking, the conclusion came of the 
heads and hearts of the people moving in balance in all 
council — of the average manhood of the nation acting in bal- 
ance through all the exigencies of war ; in camp — on the 
march — in the exchange of bloody conclusions in the field — 
in the loathsomeness of prisons — in the despair of slaughter- 
pens — in hospital service — in the balanced completeness of 
national charity — in the intelligence of religious ministration 
— in the steadiness of hope always on its centre, finding no 
undue elation in victory, and no discouragement in disaster ; 
and when the enemy, beaten in the war of his own choosing, 
awaited the vengeance which a nation of different drill would 
have been sure to deliver — by reason of the fact that that 
same balanced manhood spared them for the sake and for the 



24 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

uses of the principle which victory had established ; and 
further, for the reason that that same manhood, comprehend- 
ing at a glance the whole field of policy and obligation, pro- 
ceeded at once to secure to an outcast race the boon which 
its fidelity and valor had aided in winning. Conduct like 
this, leading to results like these, does not distinguish the 
history of nations trained in dogmatic methods, and it never 
will. There is a law in the way which man cannot repeal, 
and is powerless to resist. 

The great conclusion referred to will never be repealed, 
for it has become one of the living convictions of a people 
who think and feel and act in poise, and who, when they have 
acted — stand. Won, at the last stage, by the sword against 
the sword upraised to resist it, and made holy by sacrifice, 
the conclusion named will soon become the central principle 
of our organic law, if it has not become such already. 

The brotherhood of man, constitutionally recognized and 
upheld, is the true field of the cloth of gold, and over it alone 
can the truce of God ever be made to bend. Thereon, with 
us, shall be fashioned the decrees of an ever-growing wisdom. 
Thereon shall be matured the judgments, like unto that 
which the prophet translated, which may remain to be enter- 
ed up — and thence shall be proclaimed the excelsiors of the 
future. 



POEM. 

BY REV. FREDERICK BUEL. 



As I was passing down the street, 

Of yonder crowded, busy city, 
A " party " met me on the way, 

Who said, you'll say, " the more's the pity." 

But still he said — 

" Commencement day comes off in June, 

And we, as yet, have got no poet, 
If you can -get us up a poem 

To suit the occasion, let us know it." 



POEM. 25 

Said I, my friend, you know at Yale 
How the old proverb was translated 

By one, who by our college boys, 
As something of a wit was rated. 

Poeta nascitur nonfit, he rendered, 

A common man can't make a poet, 
No more than can a woolly sheep, 

By force of training, make a goat. 

Poetic thoughts don't come and go 

As spirits in a conjuror's thrall, 
And he must have a brain inspired 

To improvise a poem — at call. 

And then I mentioned o'er by name 

Our city poets : men whose pages, 
All glowing with poetic fire, 

Shall fill the shelves of future ages. 1 

But as I named them, o'er and o'er, 
That one, said he, has sung already ; 

The other, we'd be glad to get, 

But when we asked him, " business," plead he. 

And so we ran the list all through, 

Yet found no man who wrote by measure, 
And affluent in tropes and rhymes 

Would pay them out to suit our pleasure. 
Note I. — 

"Shall fill the shelves of future ages." 
The writer had some hesitation about this wording of this line. He first 
wrote it as below : 

" Shall fill the trump of future ages." 

This latter he conceives to - be more Byronic, but still, less suited to this 
sordid, money-getting age. Fame, after all, is an empty, gaseous exhalation, 
and pecuniarily don't pay, but a book bound, upon the shelf, gives the idea of 
sale and purchase, and evidently involves a mercantile transaction, and shows 
that writing poetry, as one may say, has money in it, and the writer thought 
that this idea would be more acceptable to our city poets, than the prospect of 
beng blown bodily out of Fame's speaking trumpet at some time in the dim 
and distant future. 1 may properly add that I consulted the President of the 
Alumni Association, Jno. W. Dwixelle Esq., a gentleman of great legal erudi- 
tion and of singular discrimination, and of correctness of taste in literary mat- 
ters, who, I am happy to say, coincided entirely with me in opinion. 



26 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

And then we gave the matter up, 

And said, we do not care a groat, 
If the Commencement day should pass 

Without the customary poet. 

And thus I passed along the street, 

And vexed my thoughts no more about it, 

For in the rubbish of my brain, 

Lay hid no poem — and do you doubt it ? 

But in the slumbers of the night, 

When Somnus wrapped his chains around me, 
I had a dream of coming times, 

Prophetic visions floated round me. 

I dreamt I saw that reverend men, 

Just as at Yale the canvass shows him, 

In priestly gown and band enrobed, 

Yale's early friend — each student knows him. 

I heard him speak prophetic words, 
As erst, he traced the course of ages, 

And marked how westward empire trends, 
As Time fills out her onward stages. 

I saw Nevada's summits rise, 

Her lofty peaks, her pine clad-mountains, 

While through her canons downward leaped, 
With dash and roar her snow-fed fountains. 

I saw upon the foot-hills grouped, 

The clustering roofs of town and village, 

While wide beneath, her valleys waved, 
In all their wealth of russet tillage. 

The mountains parting toward the west 
Through Golden Gates, let in Old Ocean, 

Upon whose tide came floating in, 

And rocking with her billowy motion, 

Trades white winged birds from broad lands bearing, 
From lands that skirt the western sea, 



POEM. 27 

And where the Orient hoards her treasures, 
The wealth of island, main and lea. 

Methought the sage with raptured gaze, 

Saw the land's wealth, its boundless measure, 

Our granaries filled with golden grain, 
Our vaults replete with golden treasure. 

He saw how blue our skies above, 

How pure beneath, our breezes blowing, 

With what strong thews our young men wrought, 
With jocund health our daughters glowing. 

" Here shall the course of Empire rest, 

In this fair land shall be its home, 
Whose brows the eternal mountains press, 

Whose feet are bathed with Ocean's foam." 

" Which gather's in its brawny arms, 

The stately cedars of the North, 
To cheer whose giant heart, the South 

Pours full, her purple vintage forth." 

So spoke the prophet in my dream, 
And yet his glance would restless fall, 

He scanned the land with anxious eye, 
It roved o'er cottage, house and hall. 

And now the prophet's eye is fixed, 

A glorious vision rose to view, 
'Twas pictured in his speaking face, 

So plain, I seemed to see it, too. 

Athwart the city's Golden Gate, 

I saw a classic structure rise, 
Stately and grand its walls are reared, 

It's lofty turrets seek the skies. 

It's alcoves, vast and cloistered courts, 

A store of learned tomes displayed, 
While thoughtful students pacing slow, 

Affect the broad oaks grateful shade. 



28 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

Here Science holds her peaceful courts, 
And Learning spreads her ample page, 

Religion here shall fix her seat, 
And all shall bless the passing age. 

The prophet passed, the vision changed, 

I saw the sun just sink to rest, 
Yet paused awhile his orb of fire, 

Recumbent on the Ocean's breast. 

Now far aslant he throws his beams 

On Contra Costa's varied scene, 
Swathing her hills with mellow light 

Each cottage home and orchard green. 

Lingering awhile, for homeward bound 

The Oriental steamer came, 
Staying before the city's front 

Her torch of mingled smoke and flame. 

Lingering awhile, for hark! e'en now 
Comes thundering down the open plain, 

The iron horse, and sweeping wide 
The far Atlantic evening train. 2 

The sun is gone, its greetings paid 
To mingling crowds from east and west, 

It loved to liDger where it saw, 
The onward course of Empire rest. 

But, lo ! it bade its farewell rays 

In a broad blaze of glory fall, 
On sculptured front and fretted roof, 

Of risen Berkeley's classic hall. 

Note II. — 
At this present writing, the terminus of the great Atlantic and Pacific Rail- 
road has not been publicly declared, as in my vision, however, the western 
terminus is fixed at Oakland, or near by, should this seem, therefore, to settle 
the matter, and there should any great improvement in the price of Real 
Estate arise thereby, I give notice at this time, that I shall claim a per centage 
on such appreciation, and do hereby secure Jxo. W. Dwixelle, Esq., as my 
Attorney in this case, and tender to him the copy-right of my Poe-um as a re- 
tainer for his services. 



POEM. 29 

As I was passing down the street, 

Of yonder crowded busy city, 
A " party " met me on the way, 

And said, you'll say, " the niore's the pity." 

" Commencement day comes off in June, 

And still as yet we have no poet, 
If you can get us up a poem 

To suit the occasion, let us know it." 

Said the sagacious Mrs. Glass, 

To eat stewed hare, you first must catch it, 
And when it's cooked and seasoned well, 

Why then, upon the table fetch it. 

Now, to these College folks I'd say, 

And after this, I think they'll do it, 
Whene'er again you want a poem, 

You'd better first entrap a poet. 



At the close of these exercises, a procession was formed 
under the direction of F. M. Campbell, Esq., Marshal of the 
day, and marched to the place of the evening's entertain- 
ment. 



3<D ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



II. THE FESTIVAL 



John W. Dwinelle, Esq., President of the Association, 
presided at the table, supported by Bishop Kip and General 
McDowell. Every chair was taken. The supper was pro- 
nounced excellent, and the fair ladies of Oakland replenished 
the board. Then came the speaking, as follows : 

The President. — Brothers : Another year has completed 
its circle since we celebrated our last festival, and the Alumni 
of the Pacific Coast are once more gathered together. One 
year ago the funeral cortege of our murdered President had 
hardly completed its transit of half the breadth of the conti- 
nent, and the clouds of sadness which lowered upon our land 
had only begun to feel the influence of the beams of hope. 
One year ! And if all our hopes are not fully realized ; if 
the destiny of our country still hangs swaying in the balance ; 
if the victories of the war have not yet realized all their ex- 
pected fruit, — Ave may yet be grateful for all that we have 
accomplished, and still look forward to the future with the 
serenity of faith and hope. 

"We meet again ; and although we no longer hear at the 
head of the great column of the Alumni of the United States 
the heavy tread of our Titan leaders, — Wayland, Everett and 
Nott, — we are consoled with the knowledge that they rest 
from their completed labors, and that their perfected works 
do follow them, and that our numbers have vastly increased 
by the accession of the baccalaureates of the past year. 

A word of explanation, is, perhaps, due to those of our 
guests Avho meet with us this day for the first time. TTe call 
ourselves the Associated Alumni of the Pacific Coast, and 
to the term alumnus we give no restricted signification. A 
hundred years ago, a great writer like Buffon, on laying 
down his pen after the completed task of a life-time, could 
justly boast that he had mastered all of natural science that 
was then known ; and it was only an intellect like that of 
Newton which could be conscious that the vast ocean of 



THE FESTIVAL. 31 

knowledge lay boundless, fathomless and unexplored before 
him. But since that time the field of science has spread itself 
in such infinite and divergent radiations, — there is so much 
more to be learned, and so much more the knowledge of 
which is to be renounced, — that we have gladly, and I think 
wisely, enlarged our platform, and welcome as brethren those 
who in military, naval, medical and law institutions of colleg- 
iate rank, have received those testimonials of special training 
and skill, which entitle them to be styled educated men, and 
we most willingly enroll them in the ranks of the Associated 
Alumni of California. [Long continued applause.] 

Dear to the heart of an alumnus is his alma mater, the 
nursing mother who first taught his tender feet to tread the 
difficult paths of knowledge. Around her cluster his fondest 
memories, and in that distant land from which we came, it 
was among our most cherished hopes to return again and 
again to her feet, on annually recurring occasions of re-union, 
there to meet our foster brothers, who made us boys again in 
the renewal of old intimacies and associations. But alas, our 
almai matres are far removed from us, and the high places to 
which we went up for worship during the summer solstice, 
sink far, far in the distance, thousands of miles beyond the 
most distant horizon. We all love California, as the seat of 
our early homes, and the future field where our children are 
to reap the Harvests of Life. Here will we live, and here 
will we be buried. She was once to us the Land of Promise, 
which we were not constrained to behold only from the 
distant mountain top, and then die, but have been permitted 
to enter ; and which has already become to most of us, in a 
blessed manner, the Land of Realized Hope. We are bound 
to her by the strongest ties of attachment, and not the less 
because she so much resembles, in her physical features and 
productions, that other Promised Land of Israel, — that hers, 
also, is a land flowing with milk and honey ; that the lion 
goes up to the mountains from the swelling of her mighty 
rivers ; that her cedars are loftier and more ancient than 
those of Lebanon ; that her stones are silver, and her rocks 
are gold ; land of the fig-tree, the olive, the orange and the 
vine — California, next to our mothers in the affections of our 



32 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

hearts ! [Great applause.] But even while we bend before 
her in homage, and pay her the vows of our eternal fealty, as 
she sits enthroned beside the sunset sea ; the crown of her 
young sovereignty glittering with jewelled light ; her bosom 
filled with harvests, and her lap overflowing with gold, we 
cannot forget that other, Eastern Land, the land of our birth 
and educati'on, which in our common speech we still call by 
the tender name of home. And as we turn our wistful, 
longing eyes towards the East, and in imagination behold 
the long processions of our fellow Alumni winding up the 
sacred hills to the sites of our almce matres, we feel an 
irresistible impulse to send them a message of love and 
affection. [Applause.] And we are fortunate in having 
present on this occasion, one who, in position, character 
and attainment, we are proud to claim as our representa- 
tive ; whose reputation as a writer and scholar is wider than 
the domain of our republic ; and who, lately, in foreign lands, 
and in the crisis of our country's destiny, in his own person 
illustrated the type of the American gentleman and patriot. 
I request the Bishop of California to respond to this senti- 
ment. 



" The Associated Alumni of the Pacific Coast, to the Alumni of the Eastern States . 
Send Gbeeting." 



The Right Rev. William Ingpaham Kip, D.D., Bishop of 
California, rising to respond, was greeted with long and 
hearty applause. When this had subsided, he spoke as 
follows : 

Bishop Kip. — Mr. Chairman and Brethren* of the Alumni: 
I have been honored by the request to reply to the sentiment 
which has just been read, — a sentiment most appropriate to 
this, your Annual Festival. It is one, too, to which I can 
most heartily respond. An occasion like this banishes all 
feelings of strangeness, and enables those who never before 
met face to face, to realize that there is a golden chain which 
unites them, as disciples, in a common cause. In the Republic 
of Letters there are no aliens, and in the Brotherhood of 
Scholars all may claim kindred, however humble their efforts, 



THE FESTIVAL. 33 

if they are animated by the right spirit, and are laboring for 
the common welfare. 

In the name, then, of those who, like myself, derive their 
membership from the time-honored institutions of the East, 
Brethren of the Associate Alumni, we would thank you for 
your greeting, — for the right hand of fellowship you have 
held out — for the kindly welcome you have given. 

Next, indeed, to the Brotherhood of Faith, is that of Let- 
ters. It is a wide Brotherhood, including within its ranks all 
who are striving to diffuse sound literature, or to labor for 
the intellectual advancement of themselves or others. 

It is, too, an ancient Brotherhood. We are no isolated labor- 
ers, but members of a mighty fellowship, whose origin is in far 
distant ages, and which is to go on long after we have run 
our brief career. In us the dead have labored, and we have 
entered in to enjoy the fruit of their patient toil. And sol- 
emn is it, as we look to the past, to watch the progress and 
development of that knowledge which we have inherited — to 
see how, through passing centuries, the noblest intellects were 
laboring in the mine of thought, that we might stand upon a 
vantage ground, and become the heirs of treasures which 
they purchased by the strivings of a life. 

It was a mighty struggle, with ever varying success. At 
times — as in the days of Grecian glory, or the Augustan age 
in Rome — the human mind advanced with a rapidity which 
all could mark, and lofty intellects came forth, at the very 
mention of whose names we now rise up and bare the brow 
in reverence. And then, for a time, it seemed to suffer a 
defeat, and the cause went backward — when the journeyers, 
like the schoolmen of the middle ages, were wandering in a 
mighty desert, arid, trackless and silent, with no gushing 
fountains to quench their thirst, and no manna to relieve 
their hungry souls. They had struggled to leave the land of 
Egyptian darkness, but poor humanity strove in vain to ad- 
vance, and the promised Canaan of knowledge ever receded 
from them. 

But this was not so. These were not only as " men beat- 
ing the air." These long and laborious years were not wasted. 
These earnest thinkers, though they seemed to add nothing 



34 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

to the sum of human knowledge, did not live in vain. They 
were aiding in the education of the human mind, and though 
this discipline was gained in the desert, still it fitted them for 
the conquest yet before them. And when there came a law- 
giver, like Bacon, who pointed out the path they were to 
tread, they found themselves prepared to "go up and possess 
the land." 

And so the cause went on through successive generations, 
till it came to us. And now, from the distant past — from the 
populous centuries which have gone — there is wafted to us a 
solemn and mysterious sound, which is the voice of these 
ancient laborers. The field in which we are to toil is filled 
with their memorials, and each moment of busy, eager, crav- 
ing life, we are brought into contact with the records of the 
dead. This, then, is the tie which links us together in one 
mighty fellowship. 

To recur, for an instant, to another illustration. Those 
who went before us laid the foundation of that vast edifice 
which, through ages, has been gradually rising into power 
and strength. And when they were called away from their 
toil, others of the common brotherhood who succeeded them, 
took up the implements of labor which they had dropped, 
and built on where they had been forced to leave off, until, 
at length, these too ceased from their work. And thus the 
work was bequeathed to us, that we might do our share for 
the world's welfare. 

In returning, then, the greetings of our younger brothers, 
inay we not expect them — particularly those who, to-day, for 
the first time, have put on the toga — to live in accordance 
with the dignity they have assumed ? Here, in this, the 
place where your youthful powers have been nurtured — in 
these classic shades where many a day-dream has been in- 
dulged, which you trust the future will change into a reality 
— determine to live worthy of the Brotherhood to which 
you belong. Turn from that shallow philosophy which 
would reject the hoarded experience of ages and discard all 
that the world has ever reverenced. In humility and dis- 
trustfulness of self, learn to be Christian scholars. Then, 
laboring on with a high and holy purpose, whether success 



THE FESTIVAL. 35 

crowns your efforts or not, your reward will be with you. 
In the words of a living poet, we may say to you — 

" Great duties are before you, and great works, 

But whether crowned or crownless, when you fall, 

It matters not, so as God's will is done." TADDlaUSe 1 

The President. — Looking around us upon our associates 
who crowd this hall, we know who and what the Alumni of 
the Pacific Coast are. Cicero speaks of some of his younger 
friends as probable orators and as possible statesmen, but we 
know that the Alumni of the future are certain to succeed 
us. Their forms are already visible through the parting mists 
of the future, but their faces are veiled. I ask Professor 
Durant, of the College of California, to answer for — 

The Alumni in esse, and Alumni in posse. 

Prof. Durant. — " The Alumni in esse, and Alumni in posse — 
A phraseology, Mr. President, gotten up, one might sup- 
pose, on purpose to provoke the speech of some Classical 
Professor ! Gotten up, I say, sir, for it never grew naturally 
from the Classics, nor from any other source of Language. 
It is what you may call a hybrid — an insolence to nature, and 
to all good usage as well. " The alumni ! " an English article 
with a Latin noun ! "In esse and in posse I " — two Latin 
phrases connected by an English conjunction ! "In " — a 
preposition common to several languages, and made here to 
govern the Infinitive Mood! — a construction found in no 
language, probably, under the sun ! You intended it, I pre- 
sume, sir, as an illustration of that theory which your Honor 
detailed to us the last year, as your theory of the Latin and 
Greek languages — that they were not the Latin and Greek 
languages at all, but only a couple of lingos, which somebody 
had made for fun, to play off upon young collegians, who 
might be green enough, and gullible enough, to pore over 
them for years, to be graduated finally, only to be laughed at 
for their pains by those who, like yourself, sir, were in the 
secret of the game, and had been pulling its wires ! We 
were much amused at the expose which you thus made of 
these languages, and of yourself. Sir, excuse us ; for while 
we laughed at the idea of thinking such a sell was possible, 



36 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

we laughed still more that you should think it had been prac- 
tised on yourself, when it never had been ; and that you 
should communicate such a fiction to the young Bachelors as 
a fact ! It was evident that you really believed in what you 
were saying. " You had been told it when you graduated," 
and you took it in earnest. That was what we laughed at 
most. And now our amusement amounts to admiration, not 
to say amazement, that you come forward this year with a 
practical illustration of what, the last, you confessed as a per- 
sonal misfortune, namely : that you had been hazed in the 
matter of your classical education, and that, in fact, you never 
had studied the classical languages. Your sensibility to mis- 
fortune must be rather small, sir, or else your love of consist- 
ency very great, that you take such pains to show your past 
experience in your present practice.' 55 ' [Great Laughter.] 

" The Alumni in esse, and Alumni in posse." This means, 
we suppose, the Alumni essentially, and the Alumni poten- 
tially — the Alumni in essence, and the Alumni in puissance ! 
We shall speak to that sentiment. The essence of an Alumnus 
is, that he is one who has come to be what he is by alimenta- 
tion, or by feeding and nursing. If he is not that, then there 
is no reliance to be placed on Latin philology ; and the Latin 
language is what you have taken it to be, sir, a humbug ! 
The learned author of what he himself has called "The Intellec- 
tual Development of Europe," which is, " the intellectual de- 
velopment " of Dr. Draper, of the University of New York, 
has written this book (as not a little also of his " Physiology ") 
on purpose to show that to the nursery alone is due the differ- 
ence, not only between any one man and another, but between 
man and every other animal, nay, between the animal and the 
plant, the plant and any form even of inorganic matter. 
Whether nitrogen and oxygen shall become common air, or 
aqua fortis, depends on whether these elements are mechan- 
ically or chemically mixed — whether they are masticated and 
swallowed together merely, or whether they are digested and 
assimilated as well. Whether the same egg, or larva. in a 
bee-hive shall become a working bee, a drone, or a queen-bee, 

* See, in the Proceedings of 1865, the humorous and very ingenious speech 
of Mr. Dwindle, assailing the antiquity and verity of the " classics." 



THE FESTIVAL. 37 

depends on whether it be crowded away into a narrow cell, 
and fed meanly ; that makes a Avorker ; or introduced into a 
more roomy saloon, and free-lunched — that makes a drone 
— a bee-loafer ; or bestowed in the regal pavilion, sur- 
rounded and sung to, fed and nursed by maids and 
bachelors of honor ; that makes a queen-bee. Whether 
any given germ-cell of life (and all the germ-cells are 
assumed to be identically alike, whether animal or vege- 
table) shall become the merest blotch of mold that ever 
sprouted or decayed in the core of an old cheese, or the heart 
of an old bachelor, or the noblest soul of son or daughter of 
Adam that ever* trod the earth, or spurning its trash, went 
up to its inheritance in the skies, is all a matter of feeding 
and lodging — "merely this, and nothing more." Without 
running into any such extravagance, I do say, Mr, President, 
that the College culture, or what is tantamount in education, 
no matter where acquired, (it is not necessary that a man 
should go through college in order to get the spirit or even 
the form of a collegiate education, but only that the college 
go through him — a question, indeed, of swallowing and di- 
gestion,) but the thing itself — the college drift and habit of 
thought — its compass and character of knowledge — is essen- 
tial to a full-grown, thorough-bred orthodox man or woman, 
"fitted, furnished, and stablished," as Paul would exhort, "in 
every good word and work." It is the style and quality of 
our' knowledge, more than its amount — its consistency and 
unity of form and aim, that makes it a " power." There is a 
lax, disjointed, slip-shod knowledge, that weakens and im- 
pedes our movements, like drastic laxatives and loose clothes. 
There is another, which is organic, which, while it is pliant, is 
compacted and strong. The one is a bundle of shreds, a rope 
of sand, a skeleton without sinews or wires. The college, 
like the gospel, gathers up the fragments into its baskets that 
nothing may be lost. It weaves the scattered shreds into a 
seamless garment, which it were sacrilege to part. It fuses 
the sands into the crystal glass which, through its countless 
uses in science and the arts, is among the prime civilizers of 
the world. It says to " the dry bones, live " ; and " they 
come together bone to his bone," as it bids ; and it clothes 



38 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

them with flesh, and it grows them into men. It fits man to 
man — organizes men into society, and true to its name of 
College and of University — it collects and constructs the uni- 
versal Race at last into one brotherhood. It is only in fitness, 
proportion, and combination that there is power. No ele- 
ment, by itself, has any significance or efficiency. Any other 
man may be this particular thing or that — a mere individual ; 
an Alumnus is, what one said of Burke, " not a man, but a 
system ; " as gunpowder is not one thing — nor yet many, 
without union — carbon, sulphur, or saltpetre — but all these 
substances massed, granulated rather, and dried into so many 
intensified personalities, not to destroy their common quality, 
but precisely to make them the more active in it, the more 
easily communicable, and the more instantaneously one, when 
they are fired. Such are Alumni in essence, and such are 
they in power. But in speaking of their power, it becomes 
us to speak modestly. It is a modest power. It makes 
little show of itself even in its works. 

These are obvious enough, but the agency which operates 
them is often concealed. That crashing reaper-and-thresher 
in the harvest-field, drawn over the ground by twenty horses, 
prostrating the growth of the year as b}^ a hurricane, yet 
gathering it all up without waste, driving away the chaff and 
broken straw, on the wings of the wind, pouring out the 
golden grain in clear, full and steady stream, amidst choking 
dust, and giddy whirl, and deafening clatter, gives, to the 
rustic observer, no hint of the far off silent college, from 
whose mysteries of science it was evoked. " The school- 
master is abroad," mistaken by no one, yet few are they who 
seem to take knowledge of the fact that the college, also, is 
abroad, more widely than he, and much in advance of him, 
preparing the way for his coming, laying down its railroad 
tracks, from city to city, and from State to State ; stretching 
its telegraphic wires from continent to continent, over the 
ocean's bed, and from ocean to ocean across the continents ; 
in our fields of tillage, plowing, sowing, reaping, mowing, 
raking, threshing ; upon our lakes and rivers, seas and oceans, 
driving our commerce, surveying our coasts, and improving 
our harbors ; in our battle-fields, marshaling armies, fighting 



THE FESTIVAL. 39 

battles, or forestalling them ; conciliating enemies, construct- 
ing and reconstructing States, and what is better than " a 
congress of nations/' reading lectures, and inditing laws of 
internationality, reciprocity and peace for the whole world. 
Nor is the college only abroad ; it is at home with us, in our 
architecture and painting, our sculpture and music, furniture, 
instruments and books, making our houses convenient and 
beautiful, hanging them with pictures, and filling them with 
song ; the piano for elegant and playful leisure ; the sewing- 
machine for elegant and amusing labor ; the cooking-stove 
and the bellows for economy ; the fire-kindlers, and the 
matches to kindle these ; the lamps and the kerosene, all 
graduates of our colleges domesticated with us, to serve us 
with their handiwork, and to prove the busy manipulation of 
their myriad fingers, in whatever is cunningly or usefully 
wrought under the sun. But perhaps it was intended, Mr. 
President, by the language to which you would have me 
speak, that the Alumni who now are have some special rela- 
tion to the Alumni who are yet to be ; that the one are de- 
pendent on the other. If ever there was a consequent, Mr. 
President, that had its own antecedent, — a future that grew 
out of its past, then the Alumni who are to follow us when 
we are in our graves, have the possibility of their future in 
us while we are yet above the sod. There should be gradu- 
ated this year, in California, at least one hundred men. I 
doubt if there will be seven. Next year the want of Alumni 
will be much greater still. How shall this demand be met ? By 
immigration ! And why not ? The better the people immi- 
grating, and the more of the better sort, the better for the 
country ; and how can we induce a greater amount of this 
better immigration, than by leaving the places which it must 
seek, unoccupied by our own children ? Make a scarcity at 
home, and you invite abundance from abroad. The reason 
that we have no thunder and lightning in California is, that 
everything is equally electrified. If you would raise the 
wind, create a vacuum. 

Our Congress at Washington has just now appropriated 
two hundred and forty thousand dollars in gold, to 
build and endow a High School at Pekin, the Capital of 



40 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

China, for the education of classes of " ingenuous Celestials," 
to meet the new conditions of the times. Would it not be 
well for us to forward to that establishment a timely applica- 
tion to send its Alumni to California, as fast as they are grad- 
uated ? We are in a fair way of wanting just such a supply, 
to fill the places for which our own sons and daughters, it 
seems, through lack of brains, or education, are incompetent. 
We repel the insinuation ! Congress may have meant it or 
not. It shall only provoke us to a proper jealousy for our- 
selves, our children, and our institutions. With such a resolu- 
tion let us leave these festivities to find, each one, if possible, 
some youth of genius to endow with a liberal education. 
Rear him, if it may be, from the wedded bosom of your own 
home, God grant you may ; if not, find him somewhere ; send 
him to college, to represent you there, — your spirit and your 
influence, — what is and what can be — " The Alumni in esse, 
and the Alumni in posse." [Applause.] 

The Peesident. — We have here present with us, for the 
first time, one who comes to us fresh from the hallowed pre- 
cincts of the most venerable colleges of the Atlantic coast, 
whom we gladly welcome to our circle, and whom we regard 
as an acquisition to the moral and material wealth of Califor- 
nia of which she may justly be proud. The Rev. Dr. Stone 
will please respond to this sentiment : 

The Colleges of the East. — At the other end of the bow of promise with which edu- 
cation spands the broad expanse of our Union. 

Eev. Dr. Stone was received with great applause, and 
spoke as follows : 

Dr. Stone. — Mr. President : While I thank you for your 
courtesy in mentioning my name in connection with the 
sentiment which you have offered, I would much rather have 
been one of those "juvenes dum" mentioned in the Latin 
song on our programme, and have continued to listen in 
silence, than to have been thus summoned to my feet. 

I have somewhere seen it written, or heard it spoken, that 
" Reading makes a full man, and speaking a ready man." But 



THE FESTIVAL. 4 1 

I have just been attending so diligently to another process 
which makes the " full man/ 7 that I find it inconvenient to 
engage in that which makes the " ready man." I feel too 
full for utterance. Still, rather than have any hiati in these 
proceedings, I will make the effort. I venture a little doubt- 
fully, however, upon classic ground and Latin quotations. 
Rufus Choate was once trying a case before a board of titled 
referees, when one of the learned gentlemen, impatient for 
the end, inquired of him whether there might not be hiati in 
the proceedings. •' Impossible, sir ;" said Mr. Choate. " Why 
do you speak so confidently ?" rejoined the learned umpire. 
" Impossible that there should be hiati," repeated Mr. Choate, 
" because hiatus is a noun of the fourth declension." With 
such warning, I hesitate a little about my classics. 

And yet, sir, just arrived from the East, I must not hesitate 
to present the greeting of our Eastern Colleges, if I may 
venture to speak in their name, to their fair young sister of 
the Pacific Coast. 

I remember once having something to do as one of a com- 
mittee, on some festal occasion, in preparing " a toast " in 
honor of the Colleges of our country, and we framed our 
"sentiment" something on this wise. I say "we" did it, 
though I am not sure that my own part in the proceeding 
was any more active or creditable than the prowess of a cer- 
tain backwoodsman, into whose cabin, in the clearing, a bear 
entered suddenly and uninvited. The settler swung himself 
up into a loft, out of the way of the storm that was bruin — 
mindful of the proverb that " discretion is the better part of 
valor." His wife attacked the intruder with the fire-shovel, 
carried on the contest single-handed, cheered only by brave 
words from overhead ; " that's right, Betsy ! hit him again ! 
give it to him!" and soon subdued the enemy. Her husband 
descended, and swaggering down to the inn, made report of 
the affair : " We've jest had a tremenjus fight with a bar, up 
to our house, but we muckled him, Betsy and I, we did." 
[Laughter.] 

" We " made the toast I am recalling. " Our Colleges" — 
The Banyan trees of America, — they grow on the soil of this 
land, — their branches take root in every part of the world. 7 



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Yes, sir, the spreading branches of those institutions which 
you have honored in your " sentiment," have stretched and 
spread over the Alleghanies — across the breadth of western 
prairies — beyond "the father of waters" — over the Rocky 
Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas, and drooping here and 
touching the earth, have taken root on these shores, and are 
growing and strengthening here to stalwart trees, which, in 
their turn, shall put forth other branches, until all the land 
shall be covered by their shade. They have found here a 
most kindly and nurturing soil. They will strike their roots 
deep in such soil, and grow with mounting and lusty vigor. 

This alliance of the East and West in letters and literary 
life, making us one in the commonwealth of learning, and the 
unity of cultivated mind, creates a bond of no mean strength 
against all the strain of disloyalty and disunion. While the 
fibres of this living growth, this manifold and indivisible life, 
having its root in our common sympathies and aspirations, as 
fellows in the brotherhood of scholars, remain unbroken, they 
will help powerfully to bind the parts of the Republic in 
one indivisible whole. 

We do not speculate on this point. It has been abundant- 
ly witnessed during the past four strenuous years, that the 
Colleges of the land are the nurseries of a patriotism than 
which there has been none more self-devoted and ardent in 
all the heroism of our great war. This chapter in the record 
of our literary institutions will be read by grateful and ad- 
miring eyes down the long future of our country's story. 

What is the secret of this love of scholars for their native 
land ? How is it that the cause of the country lies so near 
their hearts — and that so few among all their ranks can be 
found indifferent or traitorous in the hour of peril ? 

I wish we could gather up and recite here these statistics 
of student loyalty. I have seen it on record that of the 
students of Harvard, no less than 528 gave themselves to 
their country's service in arms, oi whom 93 left their lives 
on the field of battle or in the slaughter-pens of captivity. 
I know that 758 of the sons of Yale joined the patriot armies 
for the suppression of the great rebellion, and that this roll 
of honor is starred with 106 names, written among the mar- 



THE FESTIVAL. 43 

tyrs to Union and Liberty. And other Colleges represented 
here could tell a story as honorable and as true. 

I have been with these student soldiers through the stir- 
ring scenes of a campaign. I know how they march, how 
they fight, how they charge in the supreme crisis of the con- 
flict. It was as though some grand inspiring rhythm of brave 
words — some measured chant of noble oratory, timed their 
movements, and the good strokes they delivered. Their 
bayonet thrusts were something after the style of a young- 
lad of whom I have heard, who was trained in a Methodist 
family, and was rather more familiar with the language of 
the conference room and the prayer-meeting, than with the 
profane idioms of the street. He was assailed one day by a 
" Bumble Bee," and sharply stung. Incensed, he pursued 
and captured his enemy, and, holding him in a fold of his soft 
hat, administered retribution by thrusting him through and 
through with a pin, exclaiming vengefully as he repeated 
the thrusts, " I'll let you know that there's a God in Israel !" 

So our College boys thrust as though to the chime of such 
words as these, " Union and Liberty — now and forever — one 
and inseparable." [Laughter and applause.] 

The war was to them a war of ideas. They saw, front- 
ing the bayonet's point, an idea of secession and disunion. 
At the butt end of the rifle was an idea of union and loyalty, 
and this idea was too mighty for the other, and pierced it and 
slew it so dead that forever and forever it will have on our 
soil no resurrection. 

I wish I could introduce a little Latin, sir, before I sit 
down. I know I ought to, and I only refrain from a regard 
to my moral character. There was a clergyman living not 
far from New York city, some few years ago, very fond of 
the Latin tongue, and of introducing fragments of it on all 
occasions. Driving out one day in his one-horse family car- 
riage, he came into collision with a Celtic laborer approach- 
ing from the opposite direction with his one-horse vehicle. 
The wheels of the two equipages became locked together, 
and the Rev. Doctor proceeded to harangue upon the rights 
and wrongs of the case. But he found that his vis a vis could 
talk as loud and fast as a doctor of divinity. So he borrowed 



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a little Latin to strengthen his argument. The Irishman 
looked at him a moment in silence as the strange words came 
pouring out, and then replied with lowered tone — " Oh. well, 
if you are going to swore about it, it's meself' that will get 
out and lift your carriage.*' [Laughter.] 

I am so much afraid of being thought profane, that I will 
leave my remarks without any aroma of classic tongues. 
[Applause.] 

The President. — I promised Major-General McDowell that 
he should not be called upon for a speech. But as Major- 
General Halleck, whom we hoped to have here with us this 
evening, is still absent at the Xorth. there is a " military ne- 
cessity " that some one should represent him on this occasion, 
and I trust our distinguished guest will converse with us 
about — 

The Abut of the Tstted States. — It is what it is because its officers were educated to 
the profession which they have distinguished. 

Gen. McDowell. — Beyond returning thanks in behalf of 
the Army, I do not feel called on. at this time, to say anything 
for it. It has. within the last few years, said so much for 
itself as to make this quite unnecessary. [Applause.] 

We are now, thank God, at peace with all the world, and 
the Army is rapidly shrinking into its normal condition — not 
the small handful of six thousand men — at the cost of three 
millions per annum — which was its size when I entered it ; 
but to proportions which, while they may suffice for the needs 
of the country, shall not be a burthen too great for it to bear. 

In referring to the old Army, I must ask the Association to 
give a moment to that grand old hero who has so lately seen 
" the last of earth." 

This morning's telegrams report that General Scott was 
buried at West Point without a funeral oration or address of 
any kind, with simply the beautiful and impressive service of 
the Episcopal Church. Perhaps this was all right and proper. 
In France, in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, where their 
great men are interred, amid the luxury of woe in the way of 
marble monuments, the stranger is shown a small plot of in- 



THE FESTIVAL. 45 

closed ground which is without a word or token to mark it 
as the last resting place of the " bravest of the brave." And 
the French think this silence most eloquent and apposite ; 
that Marshal Ney needs no monument or mark of any kind 
to indicate his grave. In this sense, General Scott needed no 
funeral eulogium to teach his countrymen what he was and 
what he did. 

It was my good fortune to be, on several occasions, and for 
many years, intimately associated with General Scott, and to 
enjoy his friendship. I came thus to know that inner life and 
character which the world so seldom knows of its great men. 
With feelings as sensitive and as tender as a woman's, 
Richard the First, of England, had he all that history and 
romance has given him, was not more lion-hearted. 

I do not purpose, however, to give the Association a eulogy 
on his character and his eminent services, for none is neces- 
sary, even were I competent to pronounce it. I will merely 
beg a momentary suspension of the festivities, whilst I give 
them — 

" To the Memory of Winfield Scott." 

The President. — It has been our good fortune, on all our 
previous re-unions, to have with us, as our guests, Alumni 
from beyond the Rocky Mountains, bearing names familiar 
and illustrious in the records of literature, art, and science, 
who have responded to our call, and whom we have always 
heard with pleasure. We have such an one associated with 
us this evening, whose presence in our State has special refer- 
ence to the collection and description of the Flora of Califor- 
nia. Will Professor Wood favor us with a reply to this : 



As there is no knowledge to be gained without toil, their lot is to be envied whose labors 
lead them along the flowery paths of science. 



Prof. Wood. — Mr. President : It is unfair, not to say cruel, 
to call me up on so short a notice ; and yet, I ought to feel at 
home here, where I greet many a pupil ready to sustain me, 
should I falter. I was ready to enter this field as an explor- 
er five years earlier than I did, but war forbade. I had a 
part in that war, a strange part, to furnish books for the 



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lightening of the heavy hours of the camp, the garrison, the 
siege. Soldiers and officers took them along — gathered the 
flowers of the sunny South, and kept the author informed 
from all parts of the field of war, not only of their discover- 
ies in the vegetable kingdom, but of the incidents of battles. 
Letters, too, reached me, sometimes, from the enemy. Two 
gentlemen of science, Alumni of Southern Colleges, and now 
professors in them, had long been my correspondents. In 
January, 1861, I received their last joint communication, 
closing thus : " We are secessionists. We have staked our 
lives and our fortunes on the success of the new Confederacy, 
and go every day to Fort Pulaski to drill, Henceforth, al- 
though we must become the citizens of different Republics, 
yet we may hope to abide fellow citizens of the great Repub- 
lic of Letters." 

My reply to this was written four years after, when the 
triumphant legions of Sherman had once more seized the 
gates of their city of the Savannah. But, alas ! my letter 
reached them never ! and, after six weeks, was returned by 
the postmaster unopened. 

Mr. President, the great day of my life was that when I 
first beheld before me the Golden Gate, and entered it on 
the good steamer " Constitution," with music and streaming 
banners. I came, not only to investigate the Floral King- 
dom, but to look upon the foundations of Californian society, 
for I felt, and have ever exulted to feel, that this, too, 
is my country. I have sought out both these objects in the 
remotest corners of the State. I have seen villages of adobe 
huts, and in their midst the neatly framed school-house. 
Wherever I have been, although there were not a decent 
dwelling in the place, I was sure to find a neat and respect- 
able house of learning, of wood or of brick, and then I felt 
that, indeed, however remote, I was still within the glorious 
States of America. 

To contribute something to the interest and usefulness of 
these institutions, and to have a hand in liberalizing their 
instructions and elevating them to the dignity of Colleges 
and Universities, is the special aim of my mission among 
you ; and, in conclusion, I offer a sentiment pertinent to the 



THE FESTIVAL. 47 

that which called me up, and found in the classic song lying 
before me — viz : 1 

Alma Mater floreat ! [ Applause .] 

The President. — I have often thought that the first Alumni 
graduated in California were greatly to be envied. They 
may not win the great battle of life, or they may even not 
live to fight it at all. But there is one distinction which will 
be theirs as long as literature and education flourish on the 
borders of the Western Ocean. Their names are inscribed, 
and will forever remain inscribed, on the banner which they 
bear aloft as they march at the head of that " innumerable 
caravan " of the future Alumni of the Pacific coast, drawing 
recruits by millions, downwards as far as the stormy Cape, 
and northwards as far as the frozen sea. The honor of lead- 
ing that column is one which we may envy, but which we 
cannot share. I propose the following : 

The Indigenous Alumni of Califobnia. — Like Titans, gathering freshness and strength 
from contact with their native soil, they are the accessions to our ranks whom we are the 
most to welcome and to fear. 

John E,. Glascock, of the class of 1865 of the College of 
California, replied as follows : 

J. R. Glascock. — Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
After listening to so many eloquent speeches from those who 
have the honor and future welfare of the College of Califor- 
nia at heart, I am afraid that what few remarks I may utter 
will fall upon unappreciating ears. But, sir, as it is one of 
the recognized principles of this College never to back down 
from what has been once undertaken, I consider it a religious 
duty to speak for her, and I know I shall find it a pleasure. 

Every true lover of education must, and does, take an in- 
terest in the cause of learning. And you who have issued 
from the portals of old Yale, Harvard, Williams, Union, and 
a host of other grand centres of learning, give hearty cheer 
and sincere congratulation to our young and glorious enter- 
prise. But in comparison with this feeling, what must be 
the interest taken in this College by us who have seen her 
spring, a new-born Yenus, from the foam of California ignor- 
ance. It is not strange, then, that we should entertain for 



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■ 

her a deeper and holier affection. It is not strange that 
every rude wind that jostles her should send a chill to our 
hearts, for we love her with a " love that passeth understand- 
ing." We have watched her, this young mother of ours — 
not as old as her children — from tottering infancy to vigorous 
youth. And if at times she has seemed to falter, it was not 
from lack of energy nor want of courage. If cares and 
troubles have left their mark on her fair young brow, we feel 
a deeper veneration for every furrow — for only that is worthy 
which has passed the furnace of trial. 

It was held among the ancient Romans, as a law well de- 
fined and beyond dispute, that to be born in the purple was a 
higher mark of dignity than admission to it. So we think. 
No "purjmreus Panmis " for us, our whole cloak is royal. So 
we deem it a peculiar honor that our lot was cast here at such 
an early period as to enable us to witness the inception of 
this College, and so early to become identified with her for- 
tunes. And toward the four short and happy years spent 
under her tutelage, our hearts now beat with emotions of 
pleasure, as we recollect and acknowledge her earnest, noble 
efforts in behalf of virtue and manly honesty, and the pure 
spirit of christian philanthropy breathed through all her 
teachings. No sectarianism, but a basis as broad as the 
Bible. No creed, but a love for the book of books. Gov- 
erned by such principles, and guided by such men as she is, 
can we predict aught for her but a brilliant future ? No, we 
shall see her continue steadily on the course which she has 
marked out for herself, still holding in view, and being swayed 
by, those principles which presided over her birth ; and, 
piercing the dark, misty ranks of ignorance, like the Mace- 
donian phalanx, widen as she penetrates, and make her influ- 
ence felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. 
Even now, young as she is, she extends to you, sons of 
kindred alma maters, maternal greeting, and though her 
grasp be not as forcible as others, it is none the less hearty. 
Though her voice be not as strong, yet she gives you a wel- 
come as broad as our plains, as deep as our valleys, as rich as 
our mines, and as warm as the pure, devoted love she bears 
her own offspring. [Great Applause.] 



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The President. — This eloquent and appropriate effort con- 
vinces me only too well of my prescience, in saying that these 
young accessions to our ranks are those " whom we are most 
to welcome and to fear." Cavete pueros — beware of the boys 
— that is Latin, isn't it, Professor ? (to Prof. Durant.) [Great 
Laughter.] We see plainly that the time is coming when the 
indigenous Alumni will take these festivities into their own 
hands, and if we get any invitation to them, it will be only to 
occupy the back seats. [Great Laughter.] But our personal 
sadness at our future fate does not hinder us from rejoicing 
at the intellectual future of California. Let us rejoice, and 
rejoicing let us sing the old familiar song of Gaitdeamus. 

And it was sung with great fervor by the audience, all 
standing. 

The President. — In numbering our illustrious dead of the 
past year, the first name which occurs to every one is that 
which I am about to mention, but it is one whose eulogy 
should be pronounced only by a pupil and friend, and this 
pleasant but sad duty I shall assign to Mr. Edward Tompkins, 
of the class of 1834 of Union College : 

Eliphalet Nott— Nine decades of concentrated and successful effort in the cause of 
education, entitle him to be crowned as the Patriarch of the Contest. 

Mr. Tompkins. — Mr. President: I thank you, sir, for 
the privilege of giving utterance to the thoughts that swell 
my heart, as I am reminded of that great and good man. It 
is most fitting that the educated men of the Pacific coast 
should pause in their annual festivities, to pay their tribute 
of reverence and homage to his memory. 

It is now about thirty-four years since it was first my priv- 
ilege to become personally acquainted with Dr. Nott. He 
was then at the zenith of his fame, and I approached him 
with the timidity with which a modest boy always draws 
near to acknowledged greatness. As he appeared to me then, 
I remember him now, and years of opportunity for observa- 
tion and acquaintance only deepened the impression that he 
made upon me. Such as he then appeared, through all his 
length of years, he was — a leader and a master-spirit among 
men. 



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4 

In 1804 he was elected President of Union College. Never 
was wiser selection made ! New life was at once infused into 
the institution. New power was drawn around it. The 
springs of private benevolence were quickened in its behalf, 
and the public authorities were so admirably controlled, that 
it grew to be a recognized necessity, at Albany, in providing 
for the wants of the State, to inquire, u How much will Dr. 
Nott let us off ivith,for Union College, this year ? " 

Under his care, Union College has become "a power in the 
land." Her sons are to be found wherever on the earth 
energy and enterprise have led the foot of civilized man, and 
her maternal pride and love are deepened and quickened, as 
she recognizes in them all, in greater or less degree, the im- 
press of her great President upon them. Why should they 
not exhibit his " image and superscription ? " By day and 
by night, with a vigilance that never slept, he watched over 
them. Understanding them better than they understood 
themselves, he saved them from danger before they knew it 
was impending. In keen appreciation of the springs of ac- 
tion, and that deep knowledge of human nature, that teaches 
where and how to reach and move them, he has rarely, if 
ever, had an equal among men. 

He loved young men, and not the less, when they had 
enough of the human in them, so that they required all his 
watchfulness and care. But with the worst, his forbearance 
was exhaustless. His patience never wavered, his love was 
not chilled, nor did his great hope grow dim, until positive 
and overt sin left it no longer possible to avert the danger. 
Even then, he wept over the sinner, as only a father could 
weep ; and more than one that had resisted all his entreaties 
and warnings, were subdued to repentance by his tears. 
Noble old man ! If from thy life, great in all things, we 
would select that which was greatest, it should be thy bound- 
less faith, and hope, and love, in and for young men ! 

And now, sir, we are reminded that but a few short months 
ago, this great representative man of two centuries was fol- 
lowed to his grave by a crowd of illustrious mourners, and 
that his life on earth has closed. And what a life ! Com- 
mencing when England's king claimed his allegiance ; when 



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Burke and Chatham were at the height of their fame ; when 
Dr. Johnson yet moved, the monarch of literature in a race 
of literary men, and Junius was scourging corruption in high 
places ; his youth cotemporary with Washington and Hamil- 
ton ; his eloquent sermon upon the death of the latter, one of 
the classics of the American pulpit ; his maturer years wit- 
nessing all those great triumphs of science and the mechanic 
arts, to which he himself contributed so largely ; and at last 
the grandest struggle for freedom and the right that the 
world has ever known, terminating in a triumph so glorious 
that in view of his deep interest in it, he may well have ex- 
claimed with the Saint of old, " Lord, now lettest thou thy 
servant depart in peace ! " 

There is no regret when death comes to such a life. It is 
most fit that the soul ready for Heaven should go there. He 
who, receiving ten talents, has other ten as the product of 
their use, is prepared for the great account. Why should he 
be delayed ? 

Reverently, affectionately, his children everywhere look up 
after him to Heaven, but they know that he was taken be- 
cause God wanted him, and that when to him the great final 
questions came, his deep, eloquent voice need not have 
faltered, even there, as he answered : " I have fed hungry souls 
with the bread of life ; I have clothed naked natures with the 
robes of intelligence and virtue ; I have labored for every 
great movement of benevolence ; I have carried comfort to 
the cot of the humblest, in all those regions of the earth, 
where half the year fuel is only less important than food ; I 
have brought science down to all the walks of daily life, and 
I have left mankind wiser, better, more comfortable and more 
happy, because I have lived. Nay, more — I have here — fruit 
of my labors — crown of my rejoicing — many souls, that but 
for me would not have known the way of life, and I have left 
others behind me, that are extending the influence of my 
teachings, and in turn are winning their hundreds to lives of 
usefulness and honor ! " 

Should we mourn over such a translation ? Rather let us 
exult in what he was, and what he is ! He is not dead ! He 
lives in the good he has done — the characters he has helped 



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to form, and in the hearts that will love and cherish his 
memory while they continue to beat ! Every stroke of every 
steam-engine is a tribute to his praise. Every tree spared in 
its beauty to adorn the earth, by the utilization of coal, to 
which he, most of all men, contributed, is his monument! 
Quickened thoughts, and elevated natures, go forth in his 
spirit over the earth, and though his body, " with a century's 
history upon it," is buried in the beautiful cemetery at 
Schenectady, his soul is still leading the vanguard of human 
progress, and benefitting and blessing the whole family of 
man ! [Applause.] 

The President. — Last year, while Dr. Wayland was still 
living, the Rev. Marion McAllister, whose name I may men-, 
tion, since he has definitively returned to the Atlantic States, 
spoke of his former preceptor in terms of eloquent and tender 
appreciation. But there is now present one who walked with 
the great dead in his successful efforts to raise the standard 
and tone of educated men, especially in his own denomination 
of Christians. The Rev. Dr. Cheney will please respond. 

President Wayland. — Our last year's eulogy, too soon become a memorial of Ms dis- 
tinguished worth. 

Dr. Cheney responded in an able and eloquent speech, of 
which no report has been received. 

The President. — If we were called upon to designate an 
instance of almost perfect culture, and of uniform success in 
every department, the name of Edward Everett would be the 
first to fall from our lips. I propose — - 

Edward Everett. — An exemplar of solid and elegant scholarship to which his educated 
countrymen may point with pride. 

Professor G. W. Minns will please reply. 

Prof. Minns. — It is fit and proper that Edward Ev- 
erett should be remembered at this meeting of scholars 
from different colleges in the United States, because no man 
ever felt a deeper and more sincere interest than he did in 



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the cause of education, and of all sound knowledge. Indeed, 
it might be said there is hardly any branch of learning which 
he had not cultivated, so that it is most probably true, that 
he was the most accomplished scholar in the United States. 
His brilliant career began at the early age of thirteen, when 
he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated, the 
first scholar in his class, at the age of seventeen. Then let 
me enumerate, briefly, the variety of positions which he 
afterwards filled : he was a settled minister of the gospel at 
the age of twenty ; then elected Professor of the Greek 
language and literature at Harvard ; subsequently, for ten 
years a member of the popular branch of the Congress of 
the United States ; then Governor of Massachusetts ; Minis- 
ter Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James ; President of 
Harvard University ; Secretary of State during the latter 
part of Fillmore's administration ; then Senator in Congress, 
the last public situation which he occupied. All these posi- 
tions were filled by him with great credit to himself, and 
benefit to the country. 

Then, Mr. President, upon how many occasions did Mr. 
Everett address his fellow-citizens, and upon what a vast 
variety and range of topics ! He always came up to public 
expectation, however highly raised it might be, and some- 
times surpassed it. Some of the lines which Dr. Johnson 
wrote for Goldsmith's monument apply admirably to Everett : 

" Qui nullum fere scribendi genus 

Non tetigit ; 
Nullum tetigit quod non ornavit." 

The subsequent three lines so aptly describe the character- 
istics of Everett's genius, and the felicities of his style, that 
I am sure you will pardon me for quoting them : 

" Affectuum potens, at lenis dominator ; 
Ingenio sublimis, vividens, versatilis ; 
Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus." 

There was a charm and grace about Everett's manner of 
speaking, which I cannot describe. He never, on any occa- 
sion, used notes ; his memory never failed him ; and from 
the beginning to the end there was an uninterrupted flow of 



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harmonious language. Surely it might have been said of him, 
as was told of Pindar, that bees had alighted on his lips in 
infancy and left their honey there, and that his lips had 
dropped honey ever since. I think his eloquence might be com- 
pared to a river, now gliding along through verdant groves, 
by variegated meadows, now spreading out into a beautiful 
lake, mirroring in its serene depths the fairest scenes of earth 
and sky, now swelling in volume and moving with accelerated 
velocity, now falling down a precipice, but with no unmusical 
sound, gratifying the voyager at each winding with some new 
and delightful prospect, until he is ready to exclaim, " Flow 
on, sweet river, still forever flow thou on. Bear me whither- 
soever thou wilt." 

I have been present when a ripple of delight would pass 
over a whole audience, at the close of one of Everett's thril- 
ling and beautiful periods. I have known a large assembly 
staud spell-bound, at the end of an address by Everett, as if 
unwilling to break the enchantment which had been thrown 
around them. To no one that I have heard, could more fit- 
tingly be applied the lines which Burke addressed to Sir 
Joshua Reynolds, at the conclusion of his last lecture before 
the Royal Academy : 

" The angel ended, — and in Adam's ear 
So charming left his voice, that he awhile 
Thought him still speaking— still stood fixed to hear." 

After speaking of Mr. Everett's eminent services during 
the last part of his life, and of the zeal with which, at the 
advanced age of seventy, he devoted his purse, tongue and 
heart to the defense and maintenance of the Union, and after 
an allusion to the grief which was felt at the reception of 
the news of Mr. Everett's death, Mr. Minns concluded by 
saying that it was eminently becoming in an assemblage of 
patriotic Alumni to remember Edward Everett, the accom- 
plished scholar, the eloquent orator, the firm and true friend 
of the Union. [Applause.] 

The President. — The President of Santa Clara College is 
our guest on this occasion, and he will favor us by speaking 
to this sentiment : 



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The treasures of knowledge are not cheapened by being multiplied. Their diffusion is 
the noblest work of educated men. 

To this sentiment, President Bannister made a felicitous 
response. No report received. 

The President. — I am glad to see present a member of the 
Judiciary of our State, who has the distinguished good for- 
tune to be the father of one of the young men who graduated 
to-day, Judge G-arter, of the District Court for the Ninth Ju- 
dicial District. We shall be glad to hear from him on this 
topic : 

Knowledge.— It is the property of the people by Divine right, but has often been 
usurped by tyrants, princes, and aristocrats, in all ages, except our own and in our own 
country. 

Judge G-arter. — Mr. President and Friends of the Associa- 
tion : If you will excuse a little common Latin, I must con- 
fess that having listened to the ne-plus-ultra speeches of gentle- 
men who have already been called out, I feel non plused. 
And did not the consideration of the almost peculiar circum- 
stances under which I have the pleasure to appear in this 
body of literati prompt me, I should excuse myself from 
attempting to respond at all to the sentiment just read from 
the Chair. The sentiment embraces matter which might be 
appropriately wrought into an essay on free government, or 
be elaborated by the statesman into an eloquent speech on 
the public policy of the country. Since my arrival in this 
State, in 1849, I have not before had the pleasure to meet 
with the friends of education in a literary assembly. On 
this occasion I have come down to you from the wilderness 
in the mountains — from the country void, to the city full. 
Here you possess wealth, commerce, institutions of learning, 
scholars, orators, poets — and all the means of intellectual 
enjoyment, as well as rational amusement. There, we have 
scarcely more than the rough-hewn life of a primary civiliza- 
tion, with a most genial climate, and a territory abounding in 
exhaustless mineral wealth not yet developed, and vast agri- 
cultural resources not yet improved. 

And, what is more than all, there dwells a host of sterling 



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people, patriots who have stood by our Government in the 
hour of its greatest peril, and who will ever stand by the 
country. 

While I congratulate you upon your superior educational 
advantages, and your privileges of urban life, I must claim 
for the country that it furnishes the muscle and sinews of the 
State. 

Only educate the people, and the liberties of our nation 
are secured. The people of a Republic must be educated, 
that they may know the functions and objects of the Govern- 
ment, and learn their duty towards it. They must learn to 
appreciate the blessings of freedom and civil liberty. They 
must learn their duties as citizens in the broadest sense, and 
how to discharge those duties mutually to each other, to 
their families, to the community, and especially to their coun- 
try. Under the system of Monarchy and Absolutism, educa- 
tion and intelligence are not requisite in the subjects. On 
the contrary, the policy of such governments always restrains 
education and intelligence among the masses as far as pos- 
sible. The sovereign graciously does the thinking for his 
subjects. He usurps the privileges of education as a prero- 
gative of sovereignty. History tells the story of all ancient 
systems. And the most liberal governments of modern 
Europe have done but little better. A knowledge of the 
classics and the fine arts in the more fortunate few, is not 
alone sufficient ; it does not reach the case of the people. 
Something more is necessary than to educate the few, and 
manufacture the many into mere mud-sills in the grand super- 
structure of State. But a brighter day has dawned. The 
light of true civilization is bursting on our own happy coun- 
try with the rays of the morning. Freedom to every human 
being within our domains has been proclaimed by the light 
of that education inculcated and disseminated among the 
people by our colleges and schools. 

Loyalty and intelligence in the great crisis of our Govern- 
ment were synonymous, except in the case of the mis-educated 
politicians and . ambitious leaders who instigated the late 
terrific rebellion. The public schools of the North had edu- 
cated the people, and " taught bayonets to think" If the com- 



THE FESTIVAL. 57 

mon people of the South had received a like education, who 
believes that the rebellion just suppressed by the citizen 
soldiers of the free States would have occurred ? Its insti- 
gators would have been denounced in speech and through 
the public press, at the hearth stone, in the shop, and in the 
field — where the people could " read and write;" and instead 
of being followed as oracles and worshipped as gods, they 
would have been repudiated at the ballot box, and hanged as 
traitors by the courts of justice. I repeat, educate the peo- 
ple, and all will be well. Refuse to do it, and the lamenta- 
tion " All is lost," will ring in the ears of the nation despoiled 
of its liberty. 

Mr. President, we have only to look over the great city of 
the Pacific Coast, (San Francisco), which is a fair representa- 
tion of all cities, to be convinced of the necessity of educat- 
ing the lower order of the population. These are your 
brothers by a common origin. And they will be your co- 
equals in that earthly destiny which awaits all mankind. 
Reach down the right hand of help and elevate this multi- 
tude of ignorant, helpless, vicious ones, to the high level of 
the platform of humanity on which you so proudly stand. 
These are also a power in our Government. True, few of 
them may ever be made fit for the discharge of the duties of 
the high offices in the Government. But it must be recollect- 
ed that they can now do more. They can vote, and make 
officers, and they may change or abolish the Government. 

Then why not, in this Empire of Republican-Democracy, 
elevate this class to that standard of intelligence on which 
rests the foundations of our liberty? 

Mr. President and Gentlemen : Having participated in 
these festivities by your favor, I have had a high enjoyment 
in " the feast of reason and the flow of soul " which you have 
afforded — and have been much gratified with the whole of 
the occasion which has called together so many friends of 
education. 

And now, with my best wishes for you all, and especially 
for the College of California, on whose pleasant places and 
domes the sun of civilization and liberty may never set ; 
and with these discursive remarks, I take leave of you for this 
occasion. 



58 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

The President. — A notification has just been given to me, 
which I am compelled to believe, that one of our number has 
committed no less a crime than treason to our Association. 
[Name him ! from many voices.] I propose to name him, but 
not until I have prepared you for the enormity of his offense. 
As the Celestial code of China places massacre higher in 
heinousness than mere murder, so this treason imputed to our 
associate is one to which that of Marino Faliero bears no 
comparison in wickedness. The criminal is no other than 
Edward Tompkins, my immediate predecessor in this Chair. 
[Groans, and afterwards a painful silence.] The city police 
inform me that he has now on his person, in this room, the 
written evidences of his guilt. I propose that we proceed 
instantly with his trial, and in consideration of his inexperi- 
ence, we shall give him the benefit of the latest improvements 
in the criminal code. [Great laughter.] You are all aware 
that our recent Legislature, being satisfied that the statute 
allowing parties to be witnesses in their own cases had worked 
well, and also, that a person accused of crime, while he knows 
more of his own case than any other person, at the same time 
cannot possibly, in one case in a thousand, invent and sustain 
a false story in his own favor — the Legislature, I say, lately 
passed a law allowing persons accused of crime to testify in 
their own favor. Our excellent Police Judge in San Francis- 
co, in a late case where the accused declined to testify in his 
own favor, decided that this amounted to an admission of his 
guilt, and proceeded to pass sentence accordingly ! [Uproar- 
ious and long-continued laughter.] I, sitting as Judge in this 
case, shall adopt these principles of decision. We do not 
need any evidence of guilt. If the accused testifies in his 
own favor, and we do not believe him, he will stand con- 
demned ; if he says nothing, I shall proceed to pronounce 
sentence at once. Edward Tompkins, stand up ! Have you 
anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon 
you? 

After the uproar of laughter had subsided, Mr. Tompkins 
came forward and said : 

Mr. Tompkins. — I appeal to you, gentlemen, to vindicate 



THE FESTIVAL. 59 

me from this unprovoked attack. I have often found myself 
upon the point of abandoning my profession, because I was 
so wholly unable to cope with the matchless impudence of 
some of its leading members. That the present is a " case 
in point/ 7 you will be entirely satisfied, after I have read the 
following note : 

Oakland, June 6th, 1866. 
Dear Sir. — Calling the roll of the Alumni has become so 
arduous a task, that I wish to ask you to divide the labor with 
Professor Kellogg this evening. The speakers at our former 
meetings should not be forgotten now, and I shall be particu- 
larly obliged if you will, at the time I shall indicate, call over 
so much of the roll herewith, as embraces their names. To 
relieve the monotony of a dry catalogue, I have prefaced and 
accompanied them by such reflections as seemed to me im- 
pertinent for the occasion. 

I am, very truly, yours, 

(not) John W. Dwinelle. 

I submit to you, gentlemen, whether I am not now com- 
pletely vindicated from the attack that has been made upon 
me ? [Laughter, and cries of " read it, read it ! "] In com- 
pliance with your request, I will now call the 

eoll of 1864. 
First on the list, the President appears — 
To spare his blushes, and conceal his — years, 
His name, and him, on this third festal day, 
11 We'll leave to blind forgetfulness, a prey." 
Oh, happy fate ! — officials know it not — 
Forgetting office, and by it forgot — 
That learns at last, in hamlet, hall, or nation — 
The post of comfort is the private station ! 

Next comes the name of Henry W. Bellows — 

We found him here, the prince of all good fellows. 

So should he be, who through life's lengthening span, 

Has filled the measure of a perfect man 

As near, as e'er to mortal has been given, 

Since sin first barred the golden gates of Heaven : 

Pure in each purpose — spotless in his life — 



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Peace in his heart, when all around was strife — 

Bold as an eagle — gentle as a dove — 

Bearing aloft thy banner — sacred Love ! 

And in the thickest of the deadly fight, 

There streamed the highest symbol of the right — 

That blessed flag — with motto — thns it ran — 

u He loves me most, who loves his fellow-man !" 

Our neighboring city follows nature's laws — 

( To build wp Oakland, is her final cause) — 

And so she sends — we thank her for the boon — 

Her foremost man — you know him ! — Mayor Coon ! 

Rotund in form, and rubicund in face — 

His heart all glowing with each social grace ; 

His tongue drops sense — yet deals most sturdy knocks, 

At everything that is not christened Orthodox ; 

His growing honors — those already won — 

Stamp him forever, Williams' favorite son. 

Light in the east ! — make room for Sherman Day ! 
Old Yale's bright honors round his temples play ; 
His morn was radiant in New Haven's light ; 
Where heavenly fireworks chase away each night. 
His noon — the sun of science round it sheds, 
Its glorious halo resting on his head. 
His night — but who will dare to say, 
There's any night to him who's always — Day ? 

Next comes our parson — name's too long for rhyme — 

But the great statesman of the olden time, 

That left his impress on the early lore, 

That constitution sticklers linger o'er — 

Or if you think that race has pass'd away, 

To Clinton's College wing your memory's way, 

And bringing thence the name it bears, with pride, 

Exult that here, by our Pacific's side, 

It yet is worn, so wisely and so well, 

That truth has naught but tale of good to tell, 

And that his Alma Mater long may boast, 

The son she reared to serve the Lord of Hosts ! 



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Nevada claims a place ! — and who would spurn her, 
When she makes profert of her polished Turner ? 
Filled to the brim, and even running o'er, 
With all the wealth of richest classic lore ! 
Her hills with silver ribbed — their tops pure gold ; 
Streams running wealth, whose half has not been told. 
Yet all is dross, and worse than worthless, when 
Compared with her true wealth — her cultured men I 

Mr. Kittredge is called — but no answer we hear — 
That he's " vamosed the ranch" is entirely too clear ; 
He taught in his worth, for a brief summer's day, 
Wrapped his mantle about him, and glided away ; 
And when for our sorrow we sought out the cause, 
And asked — from our knowledge of old nature's laws — 
Who is she ? — the answer soon struck us all dumb : 
"I have married a wife, and therefore can't come" 
Was it well — we must ask — for this shepherd of souls, 
To thus Scudder away, under very bare poles, 
And leave all us sinners — not caring the least, 
So he could get back to the saints in the East ? 

Dwinelle follows next, with a "&ar"-"6ar"-ous speech, 
Designed — so we thought — this great lesson to teach : 
That when the Creator created our race, 
And wished to throw o'er it a finishing grace, 
He made up the lawyers, and when they were cold, 
Put a stop to improvement, by breaking the mold ! 
He argued it well, and we plainly could see, 
Where'er he's employed, he will well earn his fee ; 
But then — Brother D. — though as truth we receive it, 
The world needs instruction before 'twill believe it ; 
And though Brother Blatchley sustained you right well, 
Yet if truth, and the whole truth, we're now bound to tell, 
It will never go down ! till diffusion of knowledge 
Has made all creation one general college. 

Dr. Gibbons is called — and forthwith he appears — 
Face long as your arm — as becometh his years ; 
Not a curl on Ms lip, not a smile in his eye ; 



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If for jokes you would look, you must sure pass him by ; 

Johnny Broadbrim's deep shadow enshrouds him entire, 

And long since burned out the last spark of earth's fire. 

But softly, my friend ! have you now to learn 

That the drabbest of coats is sometimes made to turn, 

That when the grave garment you've turned all about, 

And the nature within it have fully found out, 

The shadow may melt into brightest of smiles, 

And the plainest of speech to the wit that beguiles ? 

We told one of his patients, and indeed it quite shock'd her, 

That the greatest of hum s teas a long-faced old doctor. 

Harry Livingston 's called — no better name graces, 
Through all our land's story, its choicest of places ; 
The Bench and the Bar it has often adorned ; 
The Senate — to virtue — its eloquence warm'd. 
And ne'er in its annals has one ever been found, 
On the great Union question, not loyal and sound. 
How strange that our Harry — such blood in his veins, 
To the union of unions, disloyal remains ! 

John Swett cometh next — by Parson Benton baptized, 
As " schoolmaster general;" he should have premised, 
That throughout our loved State, there's no man who stands 
With the fate of the future so much in his hands. 
At the well-springs of knowledge, he guideth the flow, 
That as he directs it, right onward shall go, 
For evil — the wrong can be blotted out — never ; 
For good — oh, that good shall roll onward forever ! 

It's Benton's turn now — and the greatest old croaker 

Couldn't tell what to call him — whether parson or joker ; 

But thus much is certain — in prose or in rhyme — 

He's bent on enjoying this life all the time ; 

In the pulpit he's Bent-on giving sinners a call ; 

With the boys he is bent on out-boy ing them all ; 

In the State he is bent on a very high place — 

In the Church he is Bent-on — not falling from grace ; 

And if, 'twixt the two, he secures one " square meal," 

The point— from the fable — by that — lie will steal ! 



ERRATA. 
Page 60, line 5. read — 

There streamed the highest — symbol of the right- 
Page 61, line 11, read " us " for "in." 
Page 61, line 16, read " Therefore I can't com<-.'' 
Page 63, sixth line from bottom, for •' star " read " slow." 



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Twining — in vain we call — but don't ignore 

The worth that makes us wish for more of Mooar — 

Walsworth ! — Who has, each day, for daily bread, 

A hundred girls, all running in his head — 

And worse than Brigham — spite of all their trouble — 

Vows that he yet will have the number double ; 

He'll do it too — for energy and will, 

Will make a grand success, on yonder hill. 

Rankin's the last — but surely not the least, 
Of those whose wisdom graced this annual feast ; 
Who with more pride, throughout our State or Nation, 
Can read his record when in public station ? — 
Whose daily walk with good deeds is more rife, 
When he'd returned to shades of private life ? 
Scan him right well, and beat him if you can, 
As patriot — citizen — or as honest man. 



Three names we've passed — yet surely not forgot — 

Our hearts have called them — but they answered not — 

One from the Bench, in silence passed away, 

And many homes grew dark on that sad day : 

One dying — proved — almost before our eyes — 

His own words here — " the soldier's ne'er surprised " — 

One on a distant shore gave up his life, — 

Worn out at last in the unending strife 

He'd waged each day, with thought, and heart, and pen, 

Against the follies or the wrongs of men ; — 

Haight ! Wright ! and Tuthill ! why should we complain 

Of fate, whose wisdom is so marked and plain ? 

Oh, star of faith ! do we not surely know, 

That the most ready should be first to go ? — 

Then while our tears bedew their sheltering sod — 

Think, what they were to us — they are — to God. 



Thus endeth the roll of the year sixty-four — 

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64 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

Sixty-five, it is plain — is at present too near — 

Of its talkers, too many we see round us here, 

To make it quite safe to be very plain spoken — 

For offenses much less, heads sometimes get broken — 

And then, those old Dons : McDowell, Wilson and Shafter, 

If our poor limping muse should perchance produce laughter 

Might pay off the debt in so forbidding a shape, 

'Twould prove we were greenbacks — to be in that scrape : 

McDowell might find " necessite militaire " — 

That at Alcatraz we should inhale the fresh air : 

Gen. Wilson might swoop from his well deserved height, 

And swallow us whole in the midst of his flight : 

And Judge Shafter, though gracing his very high place, 

Might beat us to death in our very next case : 

Your martyrs are blessed — for church or for nation — 

We have for them all, most unfeigned admiration, 

But we frankly confess — it may be we're a sinner — 

We'd give Martyrdom's crown for a single good dinner ; 

And so, for the fame that is surely its share, 

We hand sixty -Jive to posterity's care — 

Though the age is a fast one, it clearly appears 

That posterity means as much as two years. 

Whereupon, amid much applause, Mr. Tompkins was unan- 
imously acquitted of the grave charge made against him by 
the President. 

At the end of the Poem, there were calls for Benton. He 
rose and said : 

Hon. J. E. Benton. — Mr. President : I am charged with being 
eminently sound on a square meal. The gentleman who sits 
here, and the one over there, have said that Dr. Nott and Dr. 
Wayland are not dead, but living in their pupils. Professor 
Durant has undertaken to show that students should always 
devour their teachers ; each age eating and digesting all 
preceding ages. In fact, eating is the great business of life, 
and when I find which of you wrote that poem, I give him 
fair notice, Mr. President, I will " chaw him up." [Laughter.] 



THE FESTIVAL. 65 

The President. — We must not forget the immediate asso- 
ciations of our gathering, and I will ask our poet of the last 
year to speak to the sentiment just read. 

Mr. E. R. Sill. — Mr. President: It is an awful misfortune for 
a young man, of otherwise irreproachable character, to be 
bashful. Just look at the result of it in my case. Fearing 
that I might be called up, by way of a small fire-cracker 
among the great guns, I got up a nice little speech ; and now, 
what with my bashfulness, and what with having to stow my- 
self away among all these ladies, for lack of room at the 
table, I've forgotten every word of it ! 0, if I could only 
recollect that speech ! Why, sir, it sparkled like a diamond ; 
it had some puns in it that I — that I never heard but a few 
times before in my life ; and it wound up with the siveetest little 
piece of poetry ! Clean gone out of my head, sir, every word 
of it— 

" "Tvras ever thus, from childhood's hour; 
I never loved a young Dwi " 

I mean I never loved a young gazelle — I don't know as I 
ever even saw a young gazelle. And the worst of it is, that 
out of all the good things I was going to say, I can't even 
think of one to wind up with ; so I shall have to just sit 
down, in confusion and despair. [Applause.] 

The President. — We must not forget the great mining 
interests of California, and I will ask Judge Jones, of Mari- 
posa, what he thinks of this : 

Science. — The true philosopher's stone which changes all that it touches into gold, and 
elevates the toilsome process of the miner into the dignity of a learned profession. 

Mr. Jones. — Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : I am surprised 
to be called upon to endorse the compliment just offered to 
the men of the mining regions, because I do not think it true. 
It is natural that one from a mining district should be prone 
to extol the resources and allurements of that district, and if 
I could conscientiously do so, I should like now to maintain 
that mining the precious metals has been reduced to an exact 
science. But truth is the best policy, and the truth is, that 
mining is a calling that exercises faith and hope rather than 
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66 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

the mathematical faculty. Mining operations seem to require 
of a man, first, faith, afterwards patience, and finally, often- 
times resignation. 

The fancy of speculators may picture a solid vertebral 
column of gold lying along the center of the Sierras, sending 
out golden ribs into all the spurs and foothills, and encrusted 
with all the precious gems ; and charming devices for ex- 
tracting the great golden spinal column in convenient sec- 
tions, may be set in operation, to the loss and disgust of 
capitalists, and to the discredit of mines and miners. But 
in the mines, and among miners, it is well understood that 
while the mineral wealth is great, it is somewhat diffused, 
and that success must be expected, as in other branches of 
industry, only as the reward of sagacious enterprise and 
patient labor, except in exceptional cases. And it is not the 
desire of the men of the mining country, that persons willing 
to invest in mines should be betrayed and robbed by bubble 
schemes. But they think that the substantial wealth and 
strength of our State lie in a belt of fertile land along the 
Western coast, and a belt of rich mineral land along the 
Eastern border. They think that the wealth of the moun- 
tains is continually flowing down and accumulating upon the 
coast, and especially about this bay, and that little returns 
except perishable supplies, and that this cannot continue 
indefinitely ; that their prosperity is necessary to yours, and 
that wise economy requires that a portion of surplus capital 
should go back to keep open the old fountains of your 
wealth, and to open new ones. There must be a reflex wave. 
For if the mineral resources of the State are not deserving 
of confidence, and destined for a long time in the future to 
pour their wealth into the treasury of the country, and into 
the arteries of commerce as in the past, then we have over- 
rated our wealth and strength, and the future of our State 
is not to be what we have fondly hoped. 

I must protest against some views offered this even- 
ing concerning another important interest. Both your- 
self, Mr. Chairman, and the learned professor of languages, 
have alluded in rather deprecatory terms to the small num- 
ber of graduates, and of candidates for graduation, at this 



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young college, and it was asked, " What shall we do ? Shall 
we import them ?" I confess myself taken aback by this 
view of the case. What could you expect ? Perhaps we in 
the mountains have not kept pace with the progressive spirit 
of the bay cities. We had supposed we were doing well, 
and now this complaint of our tardiness, because, within 
twelve or fifteen years from the settlement of the State, we 
have not already on hand a large domestic supply of candi- 
dates for college honors, seems premature and unjust. Either 
we are behind the times, or this demand is unreasonable and 
exorbitant. But I assure you, there is a fine crop of them com- 
ing forward. They will swarm into these halls. And how 
will it be with us when they do come ? We, Alumni of 
many different and distant colleges, attracted to each other 
by sympathies springing from a common training and a com- 
mon interest in education and humanity, seem to make the 
commencement day of this college an occasion for meeting. 
We seem, as alumni, somehow to connect ourselves with this 
college. It is true, the interest and profit of such a meeting 
justify us. But how long will her own children permit the 
pious fraud ? Now they are few, and we are many. We 
benevolently patronize them, and they tolerate us. But they 
shall increase, and we must decrease. And when, in the 
future, the alumni of the College of California shall meet on 
the beautiful grounds selected with so much judgment and 
taste for their halls, will they not say to us, " This is our 
alma mater, but, poor estrays ! Unfortunate foundlings ! 
Where is your fond mother ?." Then one of us must answer, 
" She sits upon the banks of the Connecticut, looking out 
upon a scene of peace and varied beauty, still as vividly pic- 
tured in the memory as if just photographed there." An- 
other must point to the Sound, another, to Dartmouth, and 
others to other seats of learning. Truly, as you, sir, have 
remarked, we have reason to fear these young men. How 
will they receive us when they become strong ? I hope to 
come and see. 

Now, sir, I think this is a good time to stop. [Applause.] 



The President. — I see among our guests Dr. W. P. Gib- 



68 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

bons, of Alameda, whom we shall be glad to hear from. I 
therefore propose : 



The Medical, Profession. — The pioneers in chemistry and natural philosophy, and the 
founders of the inductive sciences. 



Dr. W. P. Gibbons. — Mr. President : It has been remarked 
by one of our humorous writers, that "there are a great 
many people in the world like blind mules ; they are very 
anxious to make a good kick, but they don't know exactly in 
what direction to strike." I feel myself placed, to some ex- 
tent, among this class of individuals ; for the profession 
which I represent has associated with it so much science with 
so much empiricism and quackery — so much learning with so 
much ignorance — so much philanthropy with so much selfish- 
ness, that it is difficult to select a proper direction for a re- 
sponse to the sentiment. These incompatible properties are 
not, however, co-ordinates of the healing art. They are the 
debris which is driven into shallow water by the advance of 
the tide — the fungi, which, without an organization capable 
of performing any complex function, are rooted on higher 
orders of existences, from which they absorb a nourishment 
that they never prepared. 

But how is it possible, sir, to do justice, in five minutes, to a 
theme whose accretions of knowledge commenced with the 
human family ? It is true, we do not owe much that is valu- 
able to the primitive ages of the world ; for the foundations 
of medical science were but indifferently established prior to 
the day of Hippocrates ; while the great mass of its resources 
have been developed within the past century. It now de- 
mands tribute of every other science ; dispensing, at the same 
time, the fruits of its philosophy to every other profession. 
Studied with diligence and practised with integrity, it bears 
the emblems of divinity ; as feloniously appropriated by the 
empiric and the quack, it degrades both science and human 
nature. But the occasion forbids a formal entrance on a 
sentiment so rich in interest and so prolific in resources ; so 
I must now apply a ligature to the arteries of thought, that 
language may not overrun its prescribed limits. 



THE FESTIVAL. 69 

The President. — I had engaged some of the members of 
our State Judiciary to say a few words for the science which 
they administer ; but I find that with a most astounding and 
unexpected moral cowardice, they have absconded imme- 
diately after the collation. (Laughter and groans). But I 
see here the Hon. George Barstow, and as his profession are 
always prepared, I shall ask him to answer for 

The Law— The protector of all the arts and sciences, and the hand-maiden of them all ; 
covering them constantly with its shield, and calling upon them daily for assistance." 

Mr. Barstow, in response, made a humorous and telling 
speech, of which there is no report. 

The President. — Most of us are old enough to have wit- 
nessed the rise of the great power which is henceforth to rule 
the civilized word — the Power of Public Opinion, and of its 
exponent, the Public Press. We have one of its represent- 
atives with us this evening, and I will ask Mr. Samuel Williams, 
of the Daily Evening Bulletin, to vindicate what I have said 
of his calling. 

The Press. — Not only recognized as one of the liberal professions, but requiring more 
attainments than any other, it has become the censor of them all. 

Mr. Williams. — Mr. President : Why toast the Press ? 
That institution is sufficiently given to " blowing its own 
horn" without any outside prompting. I am opposed to 
encouraging vice in any form, and more especially the vice 
of editorial garrulousness. If half what is said of these 
quill-driving worthies — and the hundredth part of what they 
say of each other — is true, perhaps the less they have to say 
the better. 

I am proud to stand here to-night as the representative of 
the Press. To be a member, however humble, of that hon- 
ored guild which concenters in itself so much of the noblest 
activity of the age ; which numbers among its servants so 
many of the first intellects of the time ; whose power is so 
mighty, and whose influence is so widely and deeply felt, is 
an honor gratifying to laudable ambition. For, say what 
you will — sneer at and deride it as you will — the Press is a 



70 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

power in the world. It is one of the chief motive forces of 
human progress. It is greater than empires or principalities, 
for it overthrows empires and principalities. It is greater 
than parliaments and legislatures, for it makes and unmakes 
parliaments and legislatures. It is greater than statesmen 
and politicians, for they are but the creatures of its breath. 
Under its quickening touch, Civilization itself throbs with a 
quicker pulse, and glows with an intenser life. 

The newspaper is the great schoolmaster of the age. It 
has a continent for its school-room, and nations for its pupils. 
It flourishes the birch over the cowering heads of millions, 
and brings down its ferule on the offending palms of Kings 
and Presidents. It goes out on its errand of beneficence 
into the highways and by-ways — penetrates the dark places 
of vice and ignorance — assails shams and humbugs— unmasks 
folly, unkennels hypocrisy, and hurls wrong from its place of 
power. Nothing escapes its Argus eyes. It is inquisitive, 
imperious, dictatorial, audacious, impatient of control ; be- 
comes the ringleader in every enterprise, from the manipula- 
tion of a ward caucus to the tearing up of the foundations of 
an empire. It usurps the functions of the forum and the 
rostrum ; summons and disperses legislatures ; makes and 
repeals laws ; and assumes the office of " general regulator " 
of the affairs of men. It even disputes the supremacy of 
the pulpit as the shepherd of the human flock, ministers to a 
wider parish, preaches to a larger congregation, and com- 
mands, I fear, more reverent listeners. When I think of its 
power, so great for good or for evil — so great both for good 
and for evil — I stand abashed in presence of the fact that so 
few of us who wield this mighty engine are worthy of our 
work. 

But while I recognize the power of the Press, I am not 
unmindful of its faults and graver abuses. I do not forget 
how base and infamous a thing it may become in the hands 
of bad men, and under despotic inspirations. I do not forget 
that in France its influence has been thrown into the scale 
against the rights of the people and the cause of Liberty ; 
that it has been the pensioned tool of the cut- throat of the 
coup d'etat, the author of the massacre of the Boulevards, and 



THE FESTIVAL. 7 1 

the would-be assassin of Mexico : That in Italy it is the 
organ of priestcraft, superstition, ignorance, and imbecile 
misrule : That in Austria it is the prop of a hated despotism 
and a semi-effete civilization : That in England, with few 
noble exceptions, all its power was arrayed during the past 
five years on the side of the most hellish rebellion since the 
revolt of Lucifer : And that even here — in a portion of our 
own favored land — in one-third of the States of this great 
Union — that here, in the full noonday blaze of the light of 
republican liberty, the Press was an instrument in the hands 
of traitors to compass rebellion — to fan the flames of war 
against the best Government that ever blessed mankind. 

The Press has other faults. It is too much disposed to 
abuse its power. It becomes meanly and recklessly personal. 
Instead of assailing principles, it assails individuals. It reeks 
with billingsgate, and borrows its weapons from the armory 
of slander and detraction. It lets fly its barbed missiles at 
random — indifferent where they strike — what gentle breast 
they may pierce. Oh — what heartaches and heartbreaks 
have been caused by a licentious press ! The honest journal- 
ist blushes, when he thinks how foul and malarious a stream 
flows through the sluice-way of journalism. 

And then the personalities of editors toward each other. 
They are scandalous. They bring the very name of journal- 
ism into disrepute. This is all wrong. It is the perversion 
— the prostitution — of journalism. It is degrading news- 
paper men to the infamous level of literary scullions. The 
plane of true journalism is absolute impersonality. The 
editor should merge his individuality in the paper. The 
journal should speak, not the journalist ; for the journal, if it 
is worth anything, is immeasurably greater than the individ- 
ual. He has no right to thrust his personal vanity, his per- 
sonal griefs, his personal likes and hatreds, into the fore- 
ground. The public care nothing for him or his. He is at 
best but the purveyor of popular intelligence. It is his 
wares, and not himself, that his literary customers want. The 
types should be sacred to the general service ; and he who 
defiles them to his personal uses, degrades his calling. His 
miserable egotism, so far from magnifying his worth in the 



72 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

estimation of the thoughtful, provokes contempt and deri- 
sion. 

And yet, with all its faults, I thank God for the gift of a 
free press. It is the palladium of popular freedom — the 
safest, surest ark of free institutions. Woe to that land 
where its strong voice is stifled ! Woe to that people who 
suffer its freedom to be shackled ! Stand by it — protect it — 
guard it as the apple of your eye. Rebuke its abuses ; curb 
its insolence ; strive to make it better — worthier of its great 
mission ; but hamper and weaken it at your peril ! Remem- 
ber that its beneficent light once quenched, Liberty itself 
must speedily perish. [Applause.] 

The President. — During this eloquent speech I was collect- 
ing my thoughts to pronounce a most feeling in memoriam to 
our associate, Henry B. Livingston, of the Daily Alta Califor- 
nia, who responded eloquently for the Press at our gathering 
last year, but who, I supposed, was forever lost to us, as the 
last we heard from him he was on the summit of a mountain 
7,000 miles high, on his way to an appropriate habitation in 
the moon.* [Great laughter.] But this very moment I have 
discovered him, just where I should have looked for him if I 
had known he was here, in the midst of a circle of ladies. 
[Great laughter.] We all ren ember the laconic correspond- 
ence between Grant and Sheridan, which took place the day 
before the surrender of Lee : "Dear Grant : I think Lee will 
surrender if we only press things. Sheridan." " Dear Phil : 
Press things. Grant." [Great applause.] So I say, " Dear 
Livingston, press things ; repress the gentle pressure by which 
you are surrounded ; compress yourself into five minutes ; 
express yourself impressively ; respond for the Press ; vindi- 
cate its prestige, and tell us how you got down from that 
high mountain." [Applause and long-continued laughter.] 

Mr. Livingston responded in his usual happy style ; but 
has furnished no report of his speech. 

The President. — When I propose as the next sentiment, 



* Alluding to the circumstance that Mr. Livingston, on the occasion referred to, had said 
7,000 miles high, instead of feet, and then persisted that he was correct. 



THE FESTIVAL. 73 

" The Pioneers of California," it will naturally be expected 
that some old resident of the State will respond. But Avith 
us it is true, as with all mankind, that " custom blunts the 
edge of sense," and we do not half appreciate the wonders 
which surround us, or the marvels which we ourselves have 
wrought. If we could " see ourselves as others see us," we 
should look upon the pictures of the past dissolving into those 
of the present as only the optical delusions of the phantas- 
magoria. Happily there is one present, a Pioneer of Ameri- 
can California, who, after participating in our early history 
and writing the motto " Eureka " in our seal of State, returned 
to the East, and after participating in our national councils, 
and representing abroad the character of the American gentle- 
man and scholar, has since returned to the Pacific coast in an 
enlarged and appropriate sphere of usefulness. Who more 
proper than the Hon. Caleb Lyon, Governor of Idaho, to 
illustrate — 

The Pioneers of California. 

Gov. Lyon was received with great applause, and made an 
eloquent speech, of which no report has been furnished. 

The President. — We greet among us this year, for the first 
time, the Rev. Dr. Dwinell, of Sacramento, and we cannot 
repress our desire to hear from him, and in asking him what 
he thinks of us and our Association, I can think of nothing 
more appropriate to propose — and certainly this is appro- 
priate — than 

An Educated Clergy. 

Dr. Dwinell. — Mr. President: The very word "clergy," 
according to the old English usage, implies that ministers 
are, as a matter of course, educated men. Without, there- 
fore, dwelling on the sentiment you propose, as quite super- 
fluous at any time, and out of place at this late hour, I would 
like to make a remark of a practical kind. I have been 
thinking, while sitting here and witnessing the great amount 
of fine feeling which warms our hearts and binds them to- 
gether on a basis of sympathy in science and letters, what a 
good thing it would be, if this good feeling could be turned 



74 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

to some permanent use. We meet here from year to year as 
the friends of learning and letters, have a splendid time, go 
away, and the secular current sweeps over and buries us 
again, till the next anniversary brings us out once more. It 
has seemed to me, brothers, that we owe something positive 
in aid of science and letters, in the higher walks of know- 
ledge, beyond what we contribute in the ordinary rounds of 
our professional or business life, and beyond the exercises of 
these reunions. We can not always import our scholars ; 
nor can we, by any amount of importation, produce in this 
State scholarly tastes and habits. They must be created 
here, and we are the ones, and those like us, on whom the 
responsibility of this principally rests. 

We ought, at least, to maintain in our own bosoms the old 
fire undimmed ; and for this purpose we need a habit of daily 
study — of doing something, even if little — in the higher walks 
of scholarship. Webster was, all his life, a student of letters 
and science. Choate, with greater frequency and range, in- 
dulged his love of the classics and of learning. Dr. Alex- 
ander every morning, on going into his study, and before be- 
ginning the work of the day, is said to have taken down book 
after book, and read something in each one of the languages 
which he understood. We ought, in a similar way, to resist 
the great California temptation to absorption in the intensity 
of current occupation, and maintain our birthright. 

Do we not, also, owe something to others still more posi- 
tive and direct ? Ought we not to let it be known that our 
sympathies and cordial co-operation are on the side of learn- 
ing, in this land where learning struggles against so many 
difficulties ? Especially should those who have the ability 
give others the benefit of their example by doing something, 
and producing something in the higher walks of scholarship. 
Example has a wonderfully contagious and kindling power. 
It was the well-known custom of Sir Walter Scott to rise 
very early in the morning, and write, before breakfast, — as is 
shown by an anecdote which he was fond of relating. After 
the completion of his Abbottsford residence, he took a noble 
lady over the house and showed it to her. At length he 
came to the study, and remarked that here it was his custom 



THE FESTIVAL. 75 

to come before others in the house were up, and write, and 
" no one was the wiser for it." The lady looked him in the 
eye, and significantly replied, " It is not so, sir/ 7 — which he 
regarded as the most graceful compliment he ever received. 
Now, one morning, while residing in Edinburgh, and engaged 
at break of day, according to custom, in composition, there 
sat over against his window a company of revelers, who had 
not closed the debauch of the previous night. Among them 
was a young man of genius and aptitude for letters, whose 
position was such that he could just see the hand and pen of 
Scott as it moved rapidly across the page, line after line, but 
he could see no more. The sight smote him to the heart, and 
set on fire the latent spark of genius and ambition, and he 
went forth, and from that moment began a career which be- 
came eminent in letters. And, sir, the scholars of this coast 
should let their example speak out, and kindle others. 

Excuse me, also, Mr. President, if I make another sugges- 
tion. In my judgment, the time has come when we should 
establish on this coast a first-class Review. "We need it for 
our own sake, and for the sake of science and letters ; and 
we owe it to those around us, and the generation to come 
after us. The ability to do it is here ; and, in a short time, 
such a Quarterly would create a taste, and draw around it a 
sympathy and support, that would maintain it at small pecu- 
niary sacrifice. But if sacrifice were needed, it should be 
freely laid on the altar of letters. Excuse these remarks, 
sir, and I will take my seat. 

The President. — I am glad that these remarks have been 
made by Rev. Dr. Dwinell, because it renders it proper for 
me to make an announcement which otherwise would have 
reached the Associated Alumni only by way of printed cir- 
culars. The Executive Committee had already determined 
to make our organization one great Committee on Public 
Education, ramified and working in all the cities, villages 
and towns of the Pacific coast. We intended, and still intend, 
to send circulars upon this subject to all the Alumni on our 
list, exhorting them to devote themselves to the cause of 
education in their several localities, and to report to us the 



76 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

result of their observations, so that our Association shall pre- 
sent at once the focus into which intelligence on this subject 
shall be concentrated, and from which it shall be diffused. 

The President here called for the singing of a re-union 
song, written by no less a poet than John Milton [Holmes]. 
It was given with a hearty good will. 

At this stage of the proceedings, Dr. H. Gibbons, from the 
lower end of the room, rose and addressed the chair. Some 
of us in this region, said he, think there has been a grievous 
omission in the exercises. You have not noticed the ladies, 
whose fair hands served our grateful and wholesome repast, 
and whose bright eyes have made some of our lonely and 
unblest guests feel sentimental. Why, Mr. President, some 
of the young men in this neighborhood absorbed cup after 
cup of coffee, evidently for the sake of those who supplied 
it. And they have been talking of Hebe and the Graces 
ever since. It is easy to explain why you, being a lawyer, 
might overlook the ladies. Such an oversight would not 
harm your profession, but it would ruin mine. I propose a 
sentiment that no man dares dissent from, and that calls for 
no comment nor response but in the hearts of the audience : 



Our Sistebs — Whose fair hands have added sweetness to the feast which they have be- 
stowed on us, and whose presence has cheered our hearts. They will never desert the 
student and the scholar. 

[Great applause.] 

J. P. Treadwell, Esq., was next called on, but he rose and 
reported that the gentleman named had left the room ! 
[Laughter.] 

S. L. Cutter, Jr., Esq., spoke handsomely for old Harvard, 
whose praises were received with applause. 

H. B. Janes, Esq., was then called out, and made a good 
showing for the sons of Yermont. 



THE FESTIVAL. 77 

The last speaker of the evening was Mr. George Bates, 
Principal of the University School, San Francisco. He was 
heard with much interest, as representing the elder Cambridge, 
from one of whose ancient colleges he was graduated. No 
reports of these speeches have been received. 

Last, but not least, was the reading of the following char- 
acteristic letter, from Rev. Eli Corwin, so well known and so 
highly esteemed as the former pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church in San Jos£, and always an enthusiastic friend of 
California : 

Honolulu, (H. I.,) April 4th, 1866. 
To tlie Secretary of the College of California, 

Greeting. — In reply to the kind complimentary invitation 
to be present at your Alumni Celebration, which you did not 
send me, I take pleasure in making this outside echo to your 
this year's festivity. And in retaliation for your neglect to 
invite me, I hereby express the Hibernian hope that this re- 
sponse may never reach you. 

The deep interest I feel in the material, mental, and moral 
development of California, so long my adopted State ; my 
especial regard for that College, to help lay the foundations 
of which in prayers and counsels, I esteemed one of the 
highest honors of my California ministry ; and the fact that 
we, at this out-post of Yankeedom, are as intensely American 
as ever, are my three-fold apology for walking unasked into 
your assembly without knocking, and without any fear of 
being knocked. 

But seriously, looking at you from this distance across the 
sea, it seems questionable whether the friends of the College 
of California are sufficiently self-appreciative. I mean, suffi- 
ciently appreciative of the great institution it is their privi- 
lege to rear. Let it be well endowed, and supplied with con- 
venient and comely buildings on the beautiful college grounds 
already secured, and there can be no more interesting sight 
to the student's eye, in your entire State, rich though it be in 
wonders of nature, and marvels of human industry. From 
its commanding position opposite the Golden Gate of com- 



7 8 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

rnerce, I think I see it now, like a great light-house, luminous 
with learniug and radiant with religion, sending out its be- 
nignant beams all along that coast. It is just the place from 
which a great Reflector might hope to let his light shine to 
the very best advantage for the whole State. How I should 
like to attach a battery to the pocket nerve of some of your 
wealthy friends in California. ''Twould be rare sport to shock 
and shake the money out of them for an endowment. I 
should be tempted to adopt the cash system so popular among 
your California stage-stoppers — cash down, and can't wait — 
and should try to scare a man awfully who, though reputed 
rich, should say he had nothing by him. Turning my mouth 
into a sort of six-chambered revolver, and loading with argu- 
ments adapted to hit the heart and the head every time, I 
should tell those who were disposed to wait and make fair 
promises for the future, that two birds in the hand are better 
than one in the bush, and that they gain no advantage by 
playing the trick of the pic-a-yune-iary chap, of whom our 
mutual friend, Major Eaton, used to tell, who always took the 
hindermost seat in the rear car, in order that he might be the 
last man called upon by the conductor, so saving to the last 
the interest on his money. I should hint to such that the 
Great Conductor is as likely to call upon them first as last to 
settle their fare, and that it is wise in season to settle the 
claims which society and posterity have upon us. It is a 
greater luxury to plant one tree and see it grow and bear fruit 
while we live, than to leave seed sufficient to plant a whole 
orchard after we are dead. 0, for some sort of patent double- 
action earthquake power, to rattle down a few of the private 
palaces of San Francisco, and, by the magic of a transform- 
ing charity, to re-erect them on the other side of the Bay, a 
public palace for the liberal education of the young ; a great 
polishing institution for the furbishing of California's bright- 
est jewels ; a mint for refining and stamping her exhaustless 
wealth of minds. Appealing to the childless millionaire, I 
should tell him not to despair of leaving even his name to 
posterity in a line of succession which could never dishonor 
it. Let such an one found a professorship, which through all 
time shall bear his name and be his proxy, doing for the gen- 



THE FESTIVAL. 79 

erations to come what he might esteem it an honor to be able 
to do for a single individual. 

0, I never think how easy it is for money wisely expended 
to make a man immortal, without finding myself cherishing 
for a little an all-absorbing greed for gain. A holy selfishness 
comes over me, and I covet, Avithout sin, the ability to do 
good beyond my present means. 

But as it is an ancient axiom of the schools that the means 
are equal to the extremes, I will give my means, one hundred 
dollars, as per draft on S. C. Bigelow, of San Francisco, here- 
with enclosed, to be used for the purchase of the corner-stone, 
and for finishing off the spire, belfry, roof, or whatever the 
highest point of your first erected college building may be. 
Having thus provided for the extremes, I leave it for you to 
urge the entire Associated Alumni to supply the means, and 
your building will be complete. 

Let the inscription upon the corner-stone be only this : 
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. — Is. 
33,6. 

Yours, with distinguished consideration, 

E. Corwin. 

The reading was followed by hearty applause. 

After a few parting words by the President, the Alumni 
sang another song of the good old college times, and then re- 
luctantly dispersed. 

Thus ended their third Annual Meeting ; more fully at- 
tended, and certainly not less enjoyed, than the two of pre- 
vious years. The Association invite an equally full and 
enthusiastic attendance in 1867. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



i. 

Alexander Ingram, M.D., was lost in the wreck of the steamer Brother Jonathan, July 
30th, 1865. 

He graduated at Dartmouth, in 1835. Having become a surgeon in the Army, he was 
stationed on this coast, and was last at Monterey. At the time of his death, he was on his 
way to a post in the Department of the Columbia. 



II. 

Gen. George Wright, perished on the Brother Jonathan, near Humboldt Bay, July 
30th, 1865. 

He graduated at West Point, and entered the Army in 1822. He served with distinction 
in Florida and Mexico, and was brevetted Brigadier-General in 1864. 

Gen. Wright was in command of the Department of the Pacific during the most trying 
period of the late war, and gained high praise for his courtesy, prudence and energy. He 
met his death while on his way to assume command of the Department of the Columbia. 

Many of the Alumni will remember his animated speech at our meeting of 1864. 



III. 

Dr. Franklin Tuthill, died in New York City, August 27th, 1865. 

He was born on Long Island, graduated at Amherst, in 1840, at the age of eighteen, 
studied medicine in New York City, and practiced his profession, on Long Island, for seven 
years. In 1850, and in 1859, he was in the New York Legislature. For many years he was 
connected editorially with the New York Times, and in 1859 assumed a like position on the 
staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. In 1864 he went to Europe, in a vain attempt to recruit 
his health. 

Dr. Tuthill was a skillful physician, an upright and successful politician, a versatile and 
forcible writer — a choice friend, and an earnest doer of good. In his many Sunday School 
addresses he captivated the young; and at our first Alumni meeting he showed an equal 
power to charm an educated and critical audience. 

His latest literary work, finished but a few days before his death, is a History of Cali- 
fornia—a marvel of industry and rapid execution. 

He has left a widow and one daughter, chief mourners among many. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 8 1 



IV. 

The Rev. William Wisner Martin, died October 16th., 1865, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

He graduated with high honor at Yale, in 1860; studied at Andover and Union Theolo- 
gical Seminaries, and in 1863 came as a home missionary to this State. He preached in 
Sonora, in San Francisco, and in San Jose. He was about to be installed over the Presby- 
terian Church in San Jos6, when laid aside by protracted and mortal disease. His death is 
deeply and widely deplored. 



The Rev. Joel W. Newton, died at Mare Island, October 29th, 1865. 

He graduated at Yale, in 1818, and at Andover, in 1827. He was for many years a 
Chaplain in the Navy, and was on duty at the time of his death. His name is on the list of 
the Congregational ministers of Connecticut. He was a native of Colchester, in that State. 



VI. 

John S. Mat, a graduate of Williams College, 1851, died November 2d, 1865. 

His home was in New York City. Having come to California in 1859, he was for some 
time a teacher in the College School at Oakland. Afterward he studied law, and was em- 
ployed as a searcher' of records in San Leandro and San Francisco. He died in Stockton. 



VII. 

Gen. Rene E. De Rtjssy, died in San Francisco, November 23d, 1865, aged 76. 

He was born on the Island of Hayti, and graduated at West Point, in 1812. He gained 
distinction in the war of 1812, and in 1814 became Chief Engineer in the Army. From 1833 
to 1838 he was Superintendent of the Military Academy, and numbered among his pupils 
many who have since achieved high military renown, At the time of his death he was 
in charge of the fortifications on this coast. He leaves a name which is affectionately and 
widely honored. 

VIII. 

The Rev. John Wtlie, a graduate of College and Seminary at Princeton, died in Eugene 
City, Oregon, January 27th, 1866. 

His first ministerial work was commenced there, in 1865, and all bear testimony to his 
worth and fidelity. As he was dying, his father said : "Now, John, when you get 
over yonder with your mother, remember your old father, and keep a sharp lookout for 
him." " All right," said he, " mother and I will give you a hearty welcome. All right, all 
right." 

IX. 

The Hon. Fletcher M. Haight, died in San Francisco, February 23d, 1866. 

He was a native of Western New York; graduated at Hamilton, in 1818; studied law, 



82 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

and practiced with eminent success in Rochester, St. Louis, and San Francisco, In 1861 he 
was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Cali- 
fornia, in which office he continued till his death. 

Few Californians have been so widely known, or have reckoned so many distinguished 
men among their professional acquaintances. 

Those who attended our meeting of two years ago, will recall the zest with which he 
joined in our festivities. The oldest in college age, he was one of the youngest in feeling. 
He was the delight of many social circles, and his death has darkened a large cluster of 



X. 

Samuel H. Paekek, died in San Francisco, March 14th, 1866, at the age of 47. 

He was born at Dover, N. H., studied and practiced law, and came to California in 1850. 
He was Postmaster at San Francisco under President Lincoln's administration, and at the 
time of his death was President of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. He was 
prominent in the Order of Odd Fellows, and foremost in building up their excellent Library 
in San Francisco. In 1865 he received the honorary degree of M.A., from the College of 
California. 

XI. 

John Ostbom, died at Dayton, Nevada, April 14th, 1866. 

He graduated at Williams, in 1854, and at the Eensselaer Institute, in 1857. Thus 
doubly prepared for success in his profession, (civil engineering), he practiced it in Nevada, 
Cal., and in Virginia City, Nev. He died, after a short illness, at the age of 28. 



XII. 

S. S. Rawson, a native of Maine, died in San Francisco, June 10th, 1866. 

He graduated at Waterville, in 1828, and was a lawyer by profession. He was at one 
time Collector at Eastport; at another, a Government clerk at Washington. He had resided 
in San Francisco many years, employing himself chiefly as a searcher of records. 



LIST OF GRADUATES 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Year. 

John E. Abbott Benicia Lawyer Dartmouth 1858 

Benj. Ackebly Oakland Clergyman 

Robt. E. Adams Crescent City Williams 1858 

Jas. M. Alexandeb San Leandro Clergyman Williams 1858 

Maj. H. A. Allen 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Gen. L. H. Allen San Francisco U. S. A West Point 1838 

John Allyn San Francisco Lane Theo. Sem..l848 

Chas. G. Ames San Francisco Clergyman Honorary 

J. H. Applegate San Francisco Lawyer Union 1837 

L. Akcheb San Jose Lawyer University Va 

G. H. Atkinson, D.D Portland, Oregon. . .Clergyman. . Dartmouth 

Henry E. Aveby Pacheco Clergyman College of N. J 1853 

Washington Ayeb, M. D . . San Francisco Physician Harvard Med 1847 

W. O. Ayees, M.D San Francisco Prof. Toland Med Col. Yale 1837 

Col. E. B. Babbitt San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

Lieut. L. S. Babbitt Vancouver U. S. A i West Point , . 

T. F. Bacheldeb San Francisco Lawyer 

J. S. Bacon San Francisco .Merchant Yale 1845 

James Bailey Sacramento Hamilton 

Capt. E. M. Bakeb 1st U. S. Cavalry West Point 

A. S. Baldwin, M.D San Francisco Physician West. Kes. Med 

Hon. Alex. W. Baldwin. .Virginia City, Nev. .U. S. District Court. .University Va 1858 

D. M. Baldwin, M.D Columbia Physician Dartmouth 1845 

Lloyd Baldwin San Francisco Lawyer Union i860 

E. Bannisteb, D.D Santa Clara Pres't Univ. Pacific. .Wesl. University .. 1838 

W. E. Barnard Seattle, W. T Collector Dartmouth 

W. H L. Barnes San Francisco Lawyer Coll. of Cal., M.A..1865 

D. P. Baestow Oakland Lawyer Honorary 

Hon. Geo. Baestow San Francisco Lawyer Dartmouth 

Wm. Baestow, M.D Idaho Physician Dartmouth 1842 

Wm. C. Baetlett Redwood City Clergyman Marietta, M.A 1855 

E. P. Batcheloe San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1858 

Ashee B. Bates San Francisco Lawyer Union 1828 

Geoege Bates San Francisco Teacher Cambridge 

Jos. C. Bates Redwood City Lawyer Bowdoin 1863 

E. G. Becewith San Francisco Clergyman Williams 1849 

Lyman Beechee Santa Cruz Williams 1857 

H. Behe, M.D San Francisco Physician 

Hon. I. S. Belchee Marysville Lawyer University Vt.v. 1846 

Wm. C. Belchee Marysville Lawyer University Vt .\ 1843 

D. P. Belknap San Francisco Lawyer Univ. N. Y. City... 1844 



8 4 



ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. T,ear. 

H. C. Benson, D.D Portland, Oregon. . .Editor Asbury Univ 1842 

Jos. A. Benton San Francisco Clergyman Yale 1842 

Hon. John E. Benton San Francisco Clergyman Univ. N. Y. City . . . 1847 

Thos. I. Bebgln San Francisco Lawyer Santa Clara 1857 

Hon. John Bil>well Chico M. C Coll. of Cal., M.A..1865 

Samuel C. Bigelow San Francisco Merchant Williams 1845 

T. B. Bigelow Oakland Merchant Harvard 1820 

Fbedebick Billings San Francisco Lawyer University Vt. », . . . 1844 

W. I. Blnnet San Francisco Amherst 1860 

Edwin C. Bissell San Francisco Clergyman Amherst 1855 

Chaeles T. Blake Idaho City, I. T Banker Yale 1847 

G. M. Blake Oakland Lawyer Honorary 

Hon. M. C. Blake San Francisco Lawyer Bowdoin 1838 

Theo. A. Blake Oakland Coll. City N. Y 

Prof. Wm. P. Blake Oakland Scientific inning. . .Dartmouth, M.A 

Rev. S. V. Blakeslee Oakland Editor Western Reserve .. 1844 

N. W. Blanchabd Dutch Flat Miner Waterville 1854 

J. S. Blatchley San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1850 

Wm D. Bliss Petaluma Lawyer Harvard 

Hon. R. P. Boise Salem, Oregon Williams 

H. T. Boobaem San Francisco Lawyer 

Hon. Newton Booth Sacramento Merchant Asbury University 

S. D. Boswoeth Grass Valley Miner Union .1851 

Maj. A. W. Bowman 9th U. S. Lnfantry. . .West Point 

J. F. Bowman San Francisco Lawyer Univ. N. Y. City. . .1844 

C. W. Bkadbtjet Virginia Clergyman Waterville 1834 

W. J. Bbadbury MilwauMe, Oregon Bowdoin 

Prof. J. H. Bkalet Mountain View Teacher Cumberland Univ 

Chas. E. Beatton San Francisco Hamilton 1852 

I. H. Beatton Oakland ...Prof. Coll. of Cal. .. .Hamilton 1846 

Henet L. Beeed San Francisco Broker .Yale 1859 

John H. Beewee Oakland Lawyer Yale 1850 

W. W. Bbteb Alvarado Clergyman Wabash 1846 

M. C. Bkiggs, D.D Sacramento Clergyman 

O. W. Bbiggs San Francisco Clergyman Brown University 

J. H. Bbookxng San Jose Teacher Univ. Rochester. . .1864 

Hon. C. M. Beosnan Virginia City, Nev . .Lawyer 

J. Newton Beown, M.D. . .San Francisco Prof.Toland Med.CoLMiami University 

P. G. Buchanan Stockton Clergyman Univ. Michigan 1846 

Thos. B. Buck Big Oak Flat Waterville 1851 

J. M. Buehleb San Francisco Clergyman Concordia 1860 

Rev. Fbedebick Buel San Francisco Ag't Am- Bible Soc. . .Yale 1836 

Mxlton Bulkley San Francisco Merchant Yale 1861 

Geo. W. Bunnell San Francisco Teacher Coll. of Cal., M.A. .1866 

Hon. Caleb Bubbank Virginia City, Nev. .Lawyer Waterville 1829 

G. E. Bubk, M.D Oakland Physician Univ. N. Y. City. ..1840 

J. P. Bush, M.D San Francisco Physician 

S. F. Butteewobth New Almaden. Union 

H. H. Btkne San Francisco Lawyer Chambly 

Philip S. Caffbey Portland, Oregon . . . Clergyman College N. J '. 1854 

Lieut. J. H. Calef 2d U. S. Artillery . . . . West Point 

Ales. Campbell San Francisco Lawyer 

Maj. John Capeeton Oakland Lawyer University Va 

H. P. Cablton San Francisco Teacher ColL of Cal., MA. .1866 

Wm. Cabman, M.D San Francisco Physician Yale 1S42 

Dteb A. Cabpenteb San Francisco Lawyer Roch. University . . 1S64 

H. W. Cabpentieb Oakland Lawyer Columbia 1848 

Eugene Casseblt San Francisco Lawyer 



LIST OF GRADUATES. 85 

Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

Hon. J. M. Cavis Columbia Lawyer Dartmouth 1846 

G-eo. C. Chandler, D.D. .McMinnville, Or Clergyman Brown University 

Maj. G. Ciiapin 14th U. S. Infantry. .West Point 

Albert Chase, M.D Austin, Nev Physician Dartmouth 1844 

Dudley Chase Petaluma Clergyman 

Geo. C. Chase, M.D Downieville Physician Dartmouth 1841 

Marshall S. Chase Martinez Lawyer .-.. . .Waterville 1840 

D. B. Cheney, D.D San Francisco Clergyman Dennison Uni. M.A.1848 

Perry G. Childs Virginia City, Nev. .Miner , . . Wesl. Univ 1846 

J. W. Clark, M.D San Francisco Merchant Yale Medical 1837 

Orange Clark, D.D San Francisco Clergyman 

Lieut. A. S. Clarke 1st U. S. Cavalry West Point 

Rev. Chas. R. Clarke San Francisco Teacher College N. J 1853 

Jeremiah Clarke San Francisco Lawyer Dartmouth 1837 

Samuel J. Clarke Oakland Lawyer Trinity 1845 

Wm. H. Clarke San Francisco . . Lawyer Bowdoin 

H. W. Cleveland San Francisco Architect Coll. of Cal. M.A. .1866 

J. J. Cleveland Humboldt County . . Clergyman Wesl. University . . 1849 

J. C. Cobb, M.D San Jose Physician Kens. Institute 1831 

E. Cohn, D.D San Francisco Clergyman Berlin University. .1849 

B. B. Coit, M.D San Francisco Physician Yale 1822 

Hon. Cornelius Cole Santa Cruz U. S. Senate Wesl. University .. 1847 

B. E. Cole Oakland Dentist . . . ; Honorary 

John A. Collins Virginia City, Nev. .Lawyer 

A. Comte, Jr Sacramento Lawyer Harvard 1863 

Rev. — Condit San Francisco Miss'nary to Chinese 

Hon. H. P. Coon, M.D. . .San Francisco Mayor S. F Williams 1844 

J. G. Cooper, M.D Santa Cruz ' Physician N. Y. Coll. P. &S..1851 

Bernard Cornelius Oswego, Or Teacher Univ. Dublin 

S. Cornelius, Jr Salem, Or Clergyman Cohunbia 

A. J. Cory, M.D San Jose Physician Miami Univ '. 

Benj. Cory, M.D San Jose Physician Miami Univ 

J. Manning Cory San Jose Lawyer Miami Univ 

Saml. F. Cowes, M.D S»n Francisco U. S. N Harvard 1845 

W. W. Crane, Jr Oakland Lawyer Honorary 

J. D. Creigh, Jr San Francisco Lawyer Washington 1848 

Hon. E. B. Crocker Sacramento Lawyer Rens. Institute 1833 

Col. J. B. Crockett San Francisco Lawyer Univ. Tenn 1828 

• John Crockett San Francisco Lawyer ■ 

B. S. Crosby Antioch Clergyman Oberlin 1857 

Danl. A. Crosby San Francisco Lawyer Dartmouth 1857 

B. W. Crowell Austin, Nev Miner Rutgers 

Wm. L. Crowell San Francisco Merchant Bowdoin 

Rev. W. N. Cunningham. .Sonoma Teacher Cumberland Univ 

Hon. John Curry :.San Francisco Supreme Court Honorary 

S. L. Cutter, Jr San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1854 

Hon.W.P. DATNGERFiELD...San Francisco Lawyer 

Jas. A. Daly San Francisco Coll. of Cai 1864 

F. ' Damour, M.D San Francisco Physician . . Toland Med 1865 

Horace Davis San Francisco Merchant Harvard 1849 

Hon. Sherman Day Oakland Mining Engineer Yale 1826 

Benj. D. Dean, M.D San Francisco Physician Berkshire Med 1843 

Charles Dean San Francisco , Columbia 

Alvah B. Dearborn San Francisco Bowdoin 1863 

Hon. Alex. Deering Mariposa Lawyer 

Jas H. Deering San Francisco Merchant Bowdoin 1845 

O. Dickinson Salem, Or Clergyman Marietta 

Isaac Dillon Salem, Or Clergyman Dickinson.. 



86 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

Heney Dobbins lone City Clergyman Western Univ 

Lt. H. C. Dodge 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Hon. Henby L. Dodge San Francisco Merchant University Vt. * . . .1846 

Z. B. Donaldson Folsom Pacific Meth 

Thos. Douglass San Jos6 Teacher Yale 1831 

John T. Doyle San Francisco Lawyer 

J. W. Dbew San Francisco. U. S. A Dartmouth 1844 

A. N. Dbown San Francisco Brown Univ 1861 

— Du Bois, M.D Lincoln Physician Toland Med 1865 

T. S. Dunn Virginia City, Nev. .Clergyman 

Henby Dubant Oakland Prof. Coll. of Cal Yale 1827 

I. E. Dwinell, D.D Sacramento Clergyman Univ. Vt..$ 1843 

John W. Dwtnelle Oakland Lawyer Hamilton 1834 

G. A. Easton San Francisco Clergyman Trinity 

Cushing Eells Walla Walla, W. T.. .Clergyman... Williams 

Capt. G. H. Elliott San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

Stukely Ellswobth Eugene City, Or Lawyer Yale 1847 

B. E. S. Ely Healdsburg Clergyman .Honorary 

D. L. Emeeson Oakland Coll. of Cal 1864 

Lt. O. H. Ebnst U. S. A West Point 

W. B. Eweb San Francisco Editor Honorary 

F. A. Fabens San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1835 

Alex. Faxbbatbn Bloomfield Clergyman Lafayette .1848 

John B. Felton San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1847 

Hon. S. J. Field San Francisco U. S. Sup. Court Williams 

Fisheb Coloma Clergyman Genesee 

H. P. Fisheb, M.D San Francisco Honorary 

Capt. H. B. Fleming 9th. U. S. Lafantry. . .West Point 1852 

J. A. Fletcheb San Francisco Lawyer iC.V* VM 

Rev. O. S. Fbambes Portland, Or Teacher Ohio Wesl. Univ 

Thos. Fbasee Santa Eosa Clergyman Union 1842 

Walteb Feeab Santa Cruz Clergyman Yale 1851 

T. W. Fbeelon San Francisco Lawyer Dartmouth 1843 

C. G. W. Fbench Folsom Lawyer Brown 1842 

Brig.-Gen. W. H. French 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Wm. R. Fbisbie San Jose Merchant Yale 1858 

Lt.-Col. Caby H. Fby San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

B. M. Gallaway San Francisco Merchant Yale 1858 

Jas. E. Galloway San Francisco Miami Univ | 

Philip G. Galpin San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1849 

Alex. Gamble San Francisco Merchant Waterville 1847 

John Gamble Big Oak Flat Waterville 1851 

S. Gaecelon, M.D Oakland 

Chas A. Gaetee Shasta CoU. of Cal 1866 

Hon. E. Gaeter Shasta Lawyer Honorary 

J. H. Gassman Stockton Clergyman ; 

T. M. Gatch Santa Cruz Teacher Ohio Wesl. Univ 

Hhiam L. Geab Downieville Lawyer .Marietta 1863 

Edwakd B. Geaby Albany, Or Clergyman Coll. N. J 

J. F. Geaby, M.D San Francisco Physician Lond. Univ 1842 

.A. W. Genung San Francisco Custom House Wesl. Univ 1846 

E. Gibbons, M.D Oakland Physician 

H. Gibbons, M.D San Francisco Physician Univ. Penn 1829 

H. Gibbons, Jr., M.D San Francisco Physician Univ. Pacific 1863 

W. P. Gibbons, M.D Alameda Physician Univ. N. Y 1845 

Feed A. Gibbs Sacramento Merchant Harvard 1850 

J. H. Giles San Jose Clergyman Bristol, Eng 

E. J. Gillespie Sonoma Clergyman Cumberland Univ 



LIST OF GRADUATES. 87 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Year. 

John R. Glascock Oakland Coll. of Cal 1865 

H. Goodwin San Francisco Clergyman Union 

Hon. John N. Goodwin. ..Arizona Ter. Delegate Dartmouth 1844 

Robert Graham San Francisco Clergyman Bethany 

Geo. D. Gray San Francisco Amherst 1865 

Giles H. Gray , . .San Francisco Lawyer Coll. City N. Y 1853 

Henry M. Gray San Francisco Merchant Dartmouth 

Wm. H. Green Stockton Lawyer Bowdoin 1863 

Hon. L. F. Grover Portland, Or Delaware 

W. A. Grover, M.D San Francisco Physician Berkshire Med 1843 

Francis A. Grubbs Salem, Or Professor "Willamette Univ... 1863 

L. C. Gtjnn San Francisco Hit. Rev. Office Columbia 1829 

H. H. Haight San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1844 

Henry Haile, M.D Alameda Physician Middlebury 1823 

H. E. Hall Stockton Union 

Maj.-Gen. H. W. HALLECK..San Francisco U. S. A Union and West Pt 

H. Hamilton Idaho City, I. T Clergyman Univ. Mich 

L. Hamilton Oakland Clergyman Hamilton 1850 

D. C. Handy, M.D Angellsland Toland Med 1865 

Jos. A. Hanna Corvallis, Or Clergyman 

Reese Happersett, D.D. ..San Francisco Clergyman 

Jacob Hardy Oakland Merchant .Honorary 

Lowell J. Hardy, Jr Oakland Coll. of Cal 1866 

H. W. HArkness, M.D . . . Sacramento Physician Berkshire Med 1847 

Rev. S. S. Harmon Oakland Prof. Pac. F. Coll Union 1843 

O. G. Harpending Forest Grove, Or. . . Professor Rutgers 1864 

Stephen R. Harris, M.D. .San Francisco Physician 

R. C. Harrison San Francisco Lawyer Wesl. Univ 1853 

F. Bret Harte San Francisco Mint Honorary 

Hon. C. Haktson Napa Lawyer Hamilton 

Wm. D. Harwood Oakland Coll. of Cal 1866 

Horace M. Hastings San Francisco Lawyer Union 1857 

F. W. Hatch, M.D Sacramento Physician Union 

E. V. Hathaway, M.D San Francisco Merchant Brown Univ 

E. F. Head San Francisco Lawyer Harvard Law 1842 

E. P. Henderson Belpassi, Or Teacher Waynesburg 

C. R. Hendrickson, D.D. .Stockton Clergyman. 

J. W. Hendrie San Francisco Merchant Yale 1851 

H. A. Henry, D.D San Francisco Clergyman England 1835 

Herrick Portland, Or Univ. Vt. . '. 

Lewis Hickman Stockton Merchant Coll. N. J 1852 

Hon. Wm. Higby Mok. Hill M. C Univ. Vt 

C. J. Hillyer Virginia City, Nev.. Lawyer Yale 1850 

S. Hilton San Francisco Editor 

A. F. Hinchman San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1845 

J. S. Hittbll San Francisco Editor Miami University 

T. H. Hittell San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1849 

Capt. H. C. Hodges Vancouver, W. T U. S. A West Point 

F. D. Hodgson Oakland Professor Wesl. Univ 1853 

Hon. O. Hoffman San Francisco U. S. Dist. Court Columbia 

Col. J. P. Hoge San Francisco Lawyer Jefferson 1829 

Ira G. Hoitt . 3 San Francisco Teacher Dartmouth 1860 

A. Holbrook Portland, Oregon. . .Lawyer Bowdoin 

Geo. P. Holman Salem, Oregon Lawyer 

C. T. Hopkins San Francisco Merchant University VtA 1847 

Hon. J. F. Houghton Sacramento Surveyor-General Rens. Institute. . . .1848 

Hon. A. G. Hovey Portland, Oregon Marietta 

J. M. Howe Sacramento Teacher 



88 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Year. 

Lieut. E. Gr. Howell 2d. U. S. Artillery West Point 

E. T. Huddart, M.D San Francisco Teacher Trinity, Dub 

Capt. W. B. Hughes Idaho Territory U. S. A West Point 

C. A. Huntington Olympia, W. T University Vtj 

H. S. Huntington Watsonville Clergyman College N. J 1850- 

I. N. Hurd Ked Bluff Clergyman 

W. H. Hurlbutt San Francisco Harvard. . , 1847 

Huse Santa Barbara Lawyer Harvard 1848 

Jer. D. Hyde Santa Cruz Lawyer Williams 1859 

H. P. Irving San Francisco Lawyer 

Elijah Janes Oakland Teacher College of Cal 1865 

H. B. Janes San Francisco Lawyer University Vt . j 1838 

Capt. LeEoy L. Janes 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

J. B. Jarboe San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1855 

Joel Jennings San Francisco Merchant Williams 

J. A. Johnson San Bernardino Clergyman Bangor Theol 

John W. Johnson McMinnville, Or Teacher . . . '. Yale ' 1862 

Sidney L. Johnson San Francisco Lawyer Yale 1827 

Addison Jones Santa Clara Clergyman Dennison University. . . 

Hon. L. F. Jones Mariposa Lawyer Wesl. University. . .1846 

E. E. Jones . . .Redwood City Waterville 1862 

W. L. Jones Eureka Clergyman Bowdoin 1849 

Capt. W. H. Jordan 9th U. S. Infantry. . . .West Point 

Balph Keeler San Francisco Kenyon and Univ. 

Heidelberg 

L. M. Kellogg San Francisco Custom House Columbia 1848 

Martin Kellogg Oakland Prof. College of Cal. .Yale 1850 

Daniel Kendig San Francisco Clergyman Univ. of Penn 1844 

W. S. Keyes San Francisco Yale 1860 

J. M. Kimberlain Santa Clara Professor Dickinson 

Eev. E. M. King Alamo Teacher Nashville University. . . 

Calvtn S. Kingsley Bannock City, I. T. .Clergyman Univ. Michigan 

Capt. S. H. Kinney 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Et. Eev. W. I. Kip, D.D...San Francisco Clergyman Yale 1831 

Wm. I. Kip, Jr San Francisco '. Yale 1860 

Maj. R. W. Kirkham Oakland U. S. A West Point 

Eev. Ktreland San Francisco Teacher Univ. Edinboro 

N. B. Klink Vallejo Clergyman Union 1849 

Eben. Knowlton San Francisco Teacher Amherst 1860 

H. E. Knox Oakland Dentist Philadelphia 

Edward S. Lacy San Francisco Clergyman Hamilton 1850 

T. H. Laine San Jose Lawyer Univ. Pacific 1858 

Delos T.attf. San Francisco Lawyer Coll. of Cal., M.A. . .1865 

J. H. Lander Los Angeles Lawyer Harvard 1849 

John Landesman San Francisco Lawyer 

L. C. Lane, M.D San Francisco Physician 

M. D. Larrowe Austin, Nev Lawyer Yale 1854 

Jos. E. Lawrence San Francisco Editor Columbia 1842 

B. C. Lipptncott Portland, Oregon. . .Clergyman Dickinson 

Eev. E. S. Lippitt Petaluma Teacher Wesl. University 

H. B. Livingston San Francisco Editor Wiliiams 1844 

J. A. Lockwood, M.D Napa Physician Union.* ..1830 

T. W. Locxwool San Francisco Printer Univ. N. Y. City. . .1854 

Lieut. J. H. Lord 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Lieut. M. E. Loucks. . , 2d U. S. Artillery. . . .West Point 

Hon. W. E. Lovett San Juan Lawyer 

M. A. Low Folsom Teacher Honorary 

A. S. Lowndes San Francisco Merchant Oxford 1848 



LIST OF GRADUATES. 89 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

James P. Ludlow San Francisco Clergyman Univ. Roche ster . . . 1861 

Louis R. Lull San Francisco Lawyer Univ. Vermont ./,. 1846 

Samuel L. Lupton San Francisco Lawyer Dickinson 1853 

A. F. Lyle San Francisco College of Cal 1864 

Horace Lyman Forest Grove, Or Prof. Pacific Univ Williams 

Hon. Caleb Lyon Idaho Territory Governor of Ter Univ. Vermont. J 

Cuti er McAllisteb San Francisco Lawyer Columbia 1854 

Hall McAllister San Francisco Lawyer Yale 

F. J. McCann Marysville Mt. St. Mary's 

J. B. McChesney Nevada City Teacher Union 

Rev. David McCluee Oakland Teacher Delaware 1848 

Johnston McCobmac Eugene City, Or Clergyman Trinity 1853 

H. C. McCbeaby Sacramento Yale 1865 

Robt. McCulloch Sonora Clergyman Belf 't Coll. Ireland 

Hon. J. G. McCullough.. Sacramento Attorney General 

C. B. McDonald San Francisco Editor Dickinson 1847 

James S. McDonald Sacramento Clergyman Miami University. .1859 

Maj.Gen.lBwiNMcDowELL.San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

Hon. S. B. McFabland Nevada City Lawyer 

Capt. S. B. McIntybe 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Hon. S. B. McKee Oakland Lawyer 

W. R. McKee San Francisco Lawyer 

Louis McLane San Francisco Banker Honorary 

Rev. J. McLaughlin Red Bluff Teacher Illinois 1857 

W. J. Maclay Napa Clergyman Dickinson 

Edwabd McLean Oakland Merchant Yale 1843 

John T. McLean, M. D San Francisco Surveyor of Port Wesl. University . . 1845 

Robebt McMillan, M. D. . San Francisco Physician 

J. H. McMonagle San Francisco Clergyman Knox 1857 

W. W. Macomber Marysville Clergyman Western Reserve. . . 1860 

Azro L. Mann San Francisco Teacher Middlebury I860 

R. K. Marriner San Francisco Teacher Waterville 1855 

S. H. Marsh, D.D Forest Grove, Or...Pres't Pac. Univ University Vt.. /,...;.>." ' 

Maj. L. H. Marshall 14th U. S. Infantry. . .West Point 

Rev. B. T. Martin Oakland Mint Honorary 

H. A. Martin Bear Valley Univ. N. Y. City. . .1854 

W. M. Martin Virginia City, Nev . . Clergyman Univ. N. Y. City . . . 1837 

Lieut. W. A. Marye Benicia U. S. A West Point 

Annis Merrill San Francisco Lawyer Wesl. University. . . 1835 

Geo. B. Merrill San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1859 

Samuel Merbitt, M.D Oakland Merchant 

Hon. R. S. Mesick Virginia City, Nev... Lawyer Yale 1848 

Prof. Chas. Miel San Francisco Teacher 

W. G. Millar, M.D Grass Valley Physician Hobart Free 1860 

Rev. Cyrus T. Mills Benicia Teacher Williams 1844 

Geo. W. Minns San Francisco .Teacher Harvard 1836 

Geo. Mooab Oakland Clergyman Williams 1851 

Eliot J. Moobe San Francisco Lawyer Marietta 1848 

Henry K. Moobe San Francisco Lawyer Dartmouth 1861 

James B. Moobe San Francisco Merchant University Vt. . i — 1842 

Jos. H. Moobe San Francisco Lawyer Woodward Law 

J. P. Moobe Benicia Clergyman Waterville 

J. Pbeston Moobe San Francisco Merchant College N. J 

N. W. Moore San Francisco Teacher Brown University 

Robebt S. Moobe San Francisco Reporter Yale 1859 

James Mobison, M.D San Francisco Physician Harvard 1844 

Maj. Wm. G. Mobris Suscol U. S. A Harvard Law 1855 

Aug. Morse, Jr Martinez Teacher Trinity 

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90 ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 

Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Year. 

Rev. W. C. Mosher San Francisco Teacher Union 1845 

B. F. Mudge Benicia Lawyer Wesl. University. . .1840 

Marion F. Mulkey Portland, Oregon Lawyer Tale 1862 

James Murphy, M.D San Francisco Physician University Pacific . . 1861 

Jos. Naphtaly San Francisco Tale 1863 

W. Newcomb, M.D Oakland Physician Castleton Med 1832 

Elijah Nichols San Francisco Lawyer Entgers 

James Nichols San Francisco Lawyer 

A. S. Nicholson Stockton Teacher 

Hon. A. C. Niles Nevada City Lawyer Williams 1852 

Prof. Jas. Nooney San Francisco Mining Engineer Tale 1838 

Hon. J. W. North Virginia City, Nev. . Lawyer Wesl. University. . . 1841 

D. B. Northrop San Francisco Lawyer University Vt. .« . . 1844 

Stepher G, Nye San Leandro Lawyer Alleghany 1858 

Capt. J. D. O'Connell 14th U. S. Infantry. . .West Point 

Aug. W. Oliver San Jose Lawyer Bowdoin 1860 

J. C. Olmsted San Fi'ancisco Merchant WiLliams 1860 

Hon. J. W. Owen Petahima Lawyer University Pacific. 1858 

C T. H. Palmer Folsom Banker Tale 1847 

D. Henry Palmer Columbia Clergyman Univ. Rochester. . . .1860 

Alex. Parker Los Angeles Clergyman Oberlin 

Levi Parsons San Francisco Lawyer 

W. F. Peabody, M.D Santa Cruz Physician 

Hon. A. C. Peachy San Francisco Lawyer 

Wm. Pearson San Francisco Custom House Tale 1841 

A. W. Peck Vallejo Clergyman Madison University 

Geo. H. Peck San Francisco Merchant University Vt. .%. . .1837 

Lt.Col. AC.M.Pennington 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Peerin, M.D Physician Toland Medical 1865 

J. Phelps, D.D San Francisco Clergyman Union 1838 

C. C. Pierce Placerville Clergyman 

Jas. Pierpont Centerville Clergyman Hamilton 

Geo. Pierson, M.D Brookyn Clergyman Illinois 1848 

Lieut.-Col. E. R. Platt 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

A. E. Pomeroy San Jose University Pacific 

Wm. C. Pond.. Petaluma Clergyman Bowdoin 1848 

C. H. Pope San Mateo Clergyman Bowdoin... 

Norman Porter San Jose Merchant Union 1844 

Leonard Powell Salem, Oregon Teacher Delaware 

Frank Power Nevada City Teacher University Mich. ..1856 

Geo. H. Powers, M.D San Francisco Oculist Harvard 

J. R. Prevost San Jos6 Santa Clara 1861 

E. J. Peingle San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1845 

R. F. Putnam San Francisco. .' Clergyman 

A. G. Quinlan, M.D San Francisco Physician Jefferson Medical. . 1844 

P. W. S. Rayle Napa Lawyer Missouri Univ 1854 

T. H. Reardon San Francisco Lawyer Kenyon 1859 

John Reed Santa Clara Farmer Williams 1848 

C. W. Rees Sierra Valley Clergyman Kalamazoo 

J. M. Reynolds Placerville Lawyer 

Hon. S. F. Reynolds -.San Francisco Lawyer Union 1833 

Hon. A. L. Rhodes.' San Jose Supreme Court Hamilton 

D. W. C. Rice, M.D San Francisco Merchant Union 

H. Richardson San Francisco Clergyman Dartmouth .1841 

F. S. Rising Virginia City, Nev. . . Clergyman Coll. City N. T 

Hon. Richard S. Rising. .Virginia City, Nev. . .Lawyer Coll. City N. T 

Hon. Alfred Rrx San Francisco Lawyer University Vt. . ^ . .1848 

Maj. J. J. Rodgees 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 



LIST OF GRADUATES. 9 1 

Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

James Rogers San Francisco Custom House Wesl. University ... 1847 

Charles Rosiere Michigan Bluff Merchant University Paris 1843 

J. W. Ross Stockton Clergyman 

C. Rowell, M.D San Francisco Physician 

Joseph Rowell San Francisco Seamen's Chaplain. .Yale 1848 

"W. K. Rowell Oakland Teacher Dartmouth 1855 

D. R. Sample Marysville Lawyer Mich. Univ 

Hon. S. W. Sanderson Placerville Supreme Court 

Charles W. Sanger San Francisco Sec'y S. F. & S. J. 

R. R. Co Union 1856 

Hon. A. A. Sargent Nevada City Lawyer Coll. of Cal., M. A., 1865 

M. J. Savage Grass Valley Clergyman Bangor Theol 

H. A. Sawtelle San Francisco Clergyman Waterville 1854 

A. F. Sawyer, M.D San Francisco Physician Harvard 1849 

Hon. E. D. Sawyer San Francisco Lawyer Coll. of Cal., M. A., 1866 

Hon. L. Sawyer San Francisco Supreme Court Honorary 

Arthur W. Saxe, M.D — Santa Clara Physician Wesl. Univ 

Schultz Oakland Merchant Univ. Pesth 

Chalmers Scott San Francisco Lawyer Univ. N. Y. City 

H. W. Scott Portland, Or Editor Pacific Univ 

Wm. H. Scott Grass Valley Oberlin 1861 

H. M. Scudder, D.D San Francisco Clergyman Univ. N. Y. City 1840 

Jas. M. Seawell San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1855 

Gen. W. Seawell San Francisco U. S. A West Point 1825 

J M. Selfridge, M.D Centerville Physician Jeff. Med 

John Sessions, D.D Oakland Clergyman Dartmouth 1822 

B. N. Seymour Haywood Clergyman Williams 1852 

Hon. J. McM. Shafter. . . San Francisco Lawyer Wesl. Univ 1838 

Hon. O.L.Shafter,L.L.D. Oakland Supreme Court Wesl. Univ 

W. H. Sharp San Francisco Lawyer 

Hon. E. D. Shattuck Portland, Or Lawyer University Vt.l 

Lewis Shearer Oakland Lawyer Harvard Law 1855 

Hon. Geo. K. Sheil Salem, Or Lawyer Miami Univ 

Rev. H. B. Sheldon San Francisco 0. Wesl. Univ 1851 

Geo. E. Sherman Colusa Coll. of Cal 1865 

J. C. Shorb, M.D San Francisco U. S. A St. Mary',s 

J. DeB. Shorb San Francisco St. Mary's 

J. M. Sibley Oakland Teacher Yale 1843 

Rev. S. D. Slmonls San Francisco Teacher 

Robt. Simson San Francisco Lawyer Columbia 

J. A. Skinner Stockton Clergyman Hamilton 1857 

N. Slater Liberty Clergyman Union 1831 

Elbert J. Smith Stockton Co. Surveyor Yale 1847 

J. C. F. Smith San Francisco Amherst 

Sidney V. Smith, Jr San Francisco Yale 1865 

Wm. M. Smith San Francisco Lawyer . , Miami Univ 

R. B.'Snowden Nevada City Clergyman Williams 1854 

A. G. Soule San Francisco Physician Berkshire Med 1846 

Frank Soule San Francisco Wesl. Univ 1838 

Hon. J. B. Southard Petaluma Lawyer 

Hon. E. Stanly San Francisco Lawyer Univ. N. C 

M. B. Starr Copperopolis Clergyman 

Alfred Stebbins San Francisco Amherst .1860 

Horatio Stebblvs San Francisco Clergyman Harvard. 1848 

Maj. Gen. F. Steele Vancouver, W. T U. S. A West Point 

J. W. Stephenson San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1859 

J. D. B. Stillman, M.D. ..San Francisco Physician Union 1843 

C. A. Stivers, M.D San Francisco Physician Toland Med 1865 



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ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

A. L. Stone, D.D San Francisco Clergyman Yale 1837 

D. C. Stone Marysville Teacher Marietta 

0. B. Stone San Jose Clergyman Univ. Rochester 1850 

W. H. Stot Portland, Or Clergyman 

Hon. R. E. Stbatton Eugene City Lawyer Marietta 

Geo. H. Strong San Francisco Dartmouth 1859 

J. D. Strong San Francisco Clergyman Williams 184:9 

Wm. Strong Portland, Or Lawyer Yale 1838 

J. W. Stcmp Columbia Clergyman , 

JohnSwett San Francisco State Sup. Schools ... ColL of CaL, M. A., 1865 

S. I. C. Swezey San Francisco Lawyer Coll of CaL, M. A., 1865 

D. E. Stees Nevada City Yale 1833 

L. W. Stees, M.D Santa Clara Physician Amherst 

Geo. Tatt Oakland Teacher.: Univ. Ya 

Rev. T. E. Taylor Oakland H. M. Agent Middlebury 1844 

Jaceson Temple Santa Rosa Lawyer Williams 1851 

P. G. S. Tenbroeck, M.D. .Washington Ter U. S. A 

W. A. Tenney San Francisco Clergyman 

A. E. Thatee San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1842 

W. W. Theobalds San Francisco Editor 

Lewis Thompson Astoria. Or Clergyman Centre 

Hon. R. A. Thompson San Francisco Lawyer 

1. N. Thobne San Francisco Lawyer Union 1S43 

S. R. Throckmorton, Jr. .San Francisco Yale 1863 

Col. J. C. Ttdball 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

W. P. Tllden, M.D Chico Physician 

H. H. Toland, M. D San Francisco Pres. Toland Medical 

CoUege 

Edwaed Tompkins Oakland Lawyer Union 1834 

E. A. Tompeins, M. D Grass Yaliey Physician Geneva Med 

Clarence F. Townsend. . .San Francisco Coll. of Cal 1866 

Jas. B. Town send San Francisco Lawyer Honorary 

C. W. Tozee Yirginia City Lawyer Univ. Mich 

Chas. T. Tbact Downievule Lawyer Coll. of Cal 1864 

Edwaed Tease, M. D San Francisco Physician Univ. N. Y 1839 

J. B. Tease, M. D San Francisco Physician Yale Med 1859 

J. P. Tbeadwell San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1544 

D. E. Teenoe, M.D San Francisco Physician Columbia 1552 

Hon. Geo. Teener Carson City, Nev — Lawyer Washington 1848 

Henry H. Teener San Francisco Reporter Yale 1858 

W. S. Txenee Xapa Teacher Asbury Univ 

Rev. D. Tethell Santa Clara Prin. Female College 

Institute Univ. X. Y. City . . . 1854 

Hon. Chas. A. Ttttle Oakland Reporter Sup. Court. Coll. of CaL, M. A., 1866 

Edwin Ttlee Michigan Bluff Banker Yale 1848 

Geo. W. Ttlee San Francisco Lawyer Harvard Law 1857 

Hon. H. B. Underbill Stockton Lawyer Amherst 

Prof. W. Yan Doeen Yisalia Teacher 

J. C. Yan Wtce, M. D Oakland Physician Univ. Md 1848 

Rev. P. Y. Yeeder San Francisco Prin. Univ. College. .Union 1846 

J. L. YeeMehr, Ph. D Sonoma Clergyman Univ. Leyden 

J. H. Yooehees San Francisco Coll. N. J 1841 

Capt. W. P. Yose - 2d U. S. Artillery West Point 

Rev. D. Yrooman Brooklyn Missionary to China . Western Reserve. . .1849 

Chas. Wadsworth, D.D. .San Francisco Clergyman Union 1837 

E. Wadsworth, M.D Yreka Physician 

Lt.Col. K A. Wainwriget. Benicia U. S. A West Point 

Hon. Asa Walker Brooklyn Lawyer 



LIST OF GRADUATES. 93 



Name. Residence. Occupation. College. Tear. 

C. C. Wallace San Francisco Clergyman Univ. K Y. City. . . 1853 

Col. H. D. Wallen 14th U. S. Infantry. .West Point 

Rev. E. B. Walsworth Oakland Pres. Pacific Female 

College Union 1844 

Rev. J. H. Warren San Mateo A. H. M. S. Agent... Knox 1847 

F. H. Waterman San Francisco Univ. Vt.| 1854 

L. P. Webber Santa Clara Clergyman Williams 

Geo. G. Webster Forest Hill Banker Yale 1847 

F. L. Weeks, M. D San Francisco Physician Toland Med 1865 

S. T. Wells Brooklyn Clergyman Union 1839 

Wm. B. Wells, M. D Petaluma Physician a Harvard 

C. N. West Santa Cruz Clergyman Alton 

Hon. C. S. Wetherby San Diego Lawyer Miami Univ 

O. C. Wheeler San Francisco Clergyman Madison Univ 1843 

A. C. Whitcomb San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1847 

A F. White Carson City, Nev — Clergyman Wabash 1843 

E. L. White San Francisco Lawyer Harvard 1854 

Wm. White Watsonville Teacher Williams 1858 

W. P. C. Whiting San Francisco Lawyer Univ. Mich 

Hon B. C. Whitman Virginia City, Nev. .Lawyer Harvard 1846 

Geo. E. Whitney San Francisco Lawyer Wesl. University 1857 

Prof. J. D. Whitney San Francisco State Geologist Yale 1839 

Jas. P. Whitney, M. D San Francisco Physician Jefferson 1834 

Kev. G. F. Whitworth. . .Seattle, W. T Prest. Univ., W. T 

Lt. A. C. WiLDRiCK San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

D. E. Willes Brooklyn Clergyman Yale 1850 

Eev. S. H. Willey Oakland V. Pres. Coll. of Cal. Dartmouth 1845 

A. Williams San Francisco Clergyman College N. J 

Andrew Williams San Francisco Lawyer Union 1819 

Gardner F. Williams Oakland Coll. of Cal 1865 

J. F. Williams Martinez Lawyer 

Samuel Williams San Francisco Editor Williams 1851 

Prof. W. J. G. Williams . . San Francisco Teacher 

Lt. Col. R. S. Williamson. San Francisco U. S. A West Point 

Chapen Wilson Santa Cruz Lawyer Union 

Chas. A. Wilson San Francisco Amherst 1854 

D. S. Wilson San Francisco Lawyer 

Gqu. Jas. Wilson San Francisco Lawyer Middlebury 1820 

Lt. J. E. Wilson 2d U. S. Artillery.. .West Point 

Hon. J. G. Wilson Dalles, Or Lawyer Marietta 

Jas. H. Wilson San Francisco Harvard 1860 

S. M. Wilson San Francisco Lawyer 

J. W. Winans San Francisco Lawyer Columbia 

Chas. Wittram San Francisco Lawyer Union 1850 

Prof. A. Wood San Francisco Botanist Dartmouth 

S. Woodbridge, D. D Benicia Clergyman Union 1830 

Lt. Col. Saml. Woods... ..Oakland U. S. A West Point 

Luther T. Woodward Jacksonville, Or Clergyman Wabash 1847 

C. K. Wright Downieville Middlebury 

C. B. Wyatt San Francisco Clergyman 

Hon. J. E. Wyche..-. Washington Ter U. S. Judge Granville 

Jas. S. Wylie San Jose Clergyman College N. J 1861 

Richard Wylie Corvallis, Or Clergyman Colllege N. J 1861 

H. N. Wyman San Francisco : Amherst 

Rev. J. H. Wythe, M. D. . Salem, Or Pres. Willamette Un.. Dickinson 1854 

R. S. Young, M. D San Francisco Physician Harvard 1833 



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